Mark Allan Goldberg

Conquering Sickness (eBook, ePUB)

Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout this eighty-year period, ordinary health concerns shaped cross-cultural interactions during Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo colonization. Historians have shown us that Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo American settlers in the contested borderlands read the environment to determine how to live healthy, productive lives. Colonizers similarly outlined a culture of healthy living by observing local Native and Mexican populations. For colonists, Texas residents' so-called immorality-evidenced by their "indolence," "uncleanliness," and "sexual impropriety"-made them unhealthy. In the Spanish and Anglo cases, the state made efforts to reform Indians into healthy subjects by confining them in missions or on reservations. Colonists' views of health were taken as proof of their own racial superiority, on the one hand, and of Native and Mexican inferiority, on the other, and justified the various waves of conquest. As in other colonial settings, however, the medical story of Texas colonization reveals colonial contradictions. Mark Allan Goldberg analyzes how colonizing powers evaluated, incorporated, and discussed local remedies. Conquering Sickness reveals how health concerns influenced cross-cultural relations, negotiations, and different forms of state formation. Focusing on Texas, Goldberg examines the racialist thinking of the region in order to understand evolving concepts of health, race, and place in the nineteenth century borderlands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803295827
• Artikelnr.: 47465247

Autorenporträt

Mark Allan Goldberg is an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on Racial and Ethnic Terminology
Chapter 1: Medicine and Spanish Conquest: Health and Healing in Late
Colonial Texas
Chapter 2: The Health of the Missions: Spanish Friars, Coastal Indians, and
Missionization in the Gulf Coast
Chapter 3: Cholera and Nation: Epidemic Disease, Healing, and State
Formation in Northern Mexico
Chapter 4: Making Healthy American Settlements: U.S. Expansion and Anglo
American, Comanche, and Black Slave Health in Nineteenth-Century Central
Texas
Chapter 5: Healthy Anglos, Unhealthy Mexicans: Health, Race, and Medicine
in South Texas
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index