Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration

Drawing upon extensive observations published in the German-speaking states of northern Europe, Paul Warden addresses the collective medical geography of the Gulf South as revealed through nineteenth-century click here travel and settlement writing.Warden finds a strong correlation between the discourse of medical geography and German settlement patterns and raises questions about longstanding assumptions regarding the presence of bushranger awning slavery as the determining factor in German settlement.