Disease and Discrimination

“A skillfully crafted social history of disease that fully comprehends the factors leading to epidemics and will challenge the way historians and historical archaeologists think about the consequences of conflict and contact in colonial America.”—Historical Archaeology



“Reveals how crucial context is in the production of variable health outcomes in human populations. . . . An excellent example of the holistic nature of anthropology and how it produces a richer understanding of phenomena than is possible if we attend only to each individual contributing factor in isolation.”—American Antiquity



“Hutchinson dismantles narratives of disease that portray early America as a place in which all were equally susceptible to pathogens. He argues instead for the importance of context—social, political, economic, and ecological—in properly understanding the nature of disease.”—H-Net Reviews



“Hutchinson does more than demonstrate how colonists contributed to the transmission of disease; he demonstrates the interconnectedness of the Atlantic world.”—North Carolina Historical Review