Princeton University Library Catalog
- Author:
- Finger, Simon, 1977- [Browse]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Published/Created:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
- Description:
- xiv, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Bibliographic references:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-217) and index.
- Contents:
- "A rude place and an unpolisht man": William Penn and the nature of Pennsylvania -- "An infancy of government": population, authority, and the problem of proprietorship -- "A suitable charity or an effectual security": community, contagion, and the care of strangers -- "A body corporate and politick" : association, interest, and improvement in a provincial city -- "Improvement in every part of the healing art": transatlantic cultures of medical improvement -- "A fine field for professional improvement": sites and sources of medical authority in the Revolutionary War -- "In a yielding state": nervous nationalism in the new republic -- "Those friendly reciprocities": panic and participation in the age of yellow fever -- "A matter of police": fever and betrayal in the federal union.
- Subject(s):
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- ISBN:
-
- 9780801448935 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080144893X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN:
- 2011051729
- OCLC:
- 767566918
- RCP:
- C - S
