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Necropolis

Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Kathryn Olivarius

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$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95

ISBN 9780674241053

Publication Date: 04/19/2022

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352 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

9 photos, 3 maps

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Kathryn Olivarius is a prizewinning historian of slavery, medicine, and disease whose writing and research have been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American, and the Washington Post. She is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.

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