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The Province of Affliction - Illness and the Making of Early New England (Hardcover)
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The Province of Affliction - Illness and the Making of Early New England (Hardcover)
Series: American Beginnings, 1500-1900
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How do we balance individual and collective responsibility for
illness? This question, which continues to resonate today, was
especially pressing in colonial America, where episodic bouts of
sickness were pervasive, chronic ails common, and epidemics all too
familiar. In The Province of Affliction, Ben Mutschler explores the
surprising roles that illness played in shaping the foundations of
New England society and government from the late seventeenth
century through the early nineteenth century. Considered healthier
than residents in many other regions of early America, and yet
still riddled with disease, New Englanders grappled steadily with
what could be expected of the sick and what allowances made to them
and their providers. Mutschler integrates the history of disease
into the narrative of early American cultural and political
development, illuminating the fragility of autonomy, individualism,
and advancement in this period. Each sickness in early New England
created its own web of interdependent social relations that could
both enable survival and set off a long bureaucratic struggle to
determine responsibility for the misfortune. From families and
households to townships, colonies, and states, illness both defined
and strained the institutions of the day, bringing people together
in the face of calamity, yet also driving them apart when the cost
of persevering grew overwhelming. In the process, domestic turmoil
circulated through the social and political world to permeate the
very bedrock of early American civic life.
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