Pandemic in Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis
(Part of the Latin American Originals Series)
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In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potos , a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city's residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions of blood from the nose and mouth. Most died within days. The great Andean pandemic of 1717-22 was likely the most destructive disease to strike South...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0271091983
ISBN13:9780271091983
Release Date:January 2022
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:152 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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