Description
Book SynopsisNarrative accounts, translated into English, of a pandemic that swept across South America between 1717 and 1722, devastating the cities of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Potosí, Arequipa, and Cuzco as well as many smaller towns.
Trade Review“In making available documents, perspectives, and voices from the past, Pandemic in Potosí joins a growing but regrettably short list of thematic sourcebooks aimed at students, teachers, and researchers [alike]. In focusing on one particular crisis, it demonstrates the value of episodic study for deep historical understanding. There are lessons here for all of us.”
—Paul Ramírez,author of Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason
“This book provides something of interest for scholars and experts, and uses the lens of a pandemic, a cultural touchstone for the current generation of students, to introduce them to eighteenth-century Potosí.”
—Mark P. Dries Hispanic American Historical Review
“Exceedingly relevant in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pandemic in Potosí is an erudite primary source translation perfectly suited to classroom use.”
—Aimee Hisey H-LatAm
