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Epidemic invasions: Yellow fever, public health, and the limits of Cuban independence, 1878 through the early Republic.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Epidemic invasions: Yellow fever, public health, and the limits of Cuban independence, 1878 through the early Republic./
Author:	Espinosa, Mariola.
Description:	207 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4171.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	History, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3112002

Epidemic invasions: Yellow fever, public health, and the limits of Cuban independence, 1878 through the early Republic.
Espinosa, Mariola.

Epidemic invasions: Yellow fever, public health, and the limits of Cuban independence, 1878 through the early Republic. - 207 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4171.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.

Yellow fever, one of the most feared diseases of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, played an important role in shaping the relationship between Cuba and the United States. In the decades after 1878, when yellow fever spread from Havana to New Orleans and throughout the Mississippi Valley, unsanitary conditions in Cuba were a persistent concern of U.S. officials. The U.S. intervention in the Cuban war with Spain was motivated in significant part by the threat posed by yellow fever to the U.S. South. After the war, the U.S. occupation government conducted a massive sanitation campaign directed at a single overriding aim, the eradication of yellow fever, although the disease afflicted few Cubans. During the early years of the Republic, to protect its own southern ports, the United States pressured the Cuban government to keep up expensive sanitary efforts to control yellow fever instead of devoting funds to matters that Cubans deemed to be of greater importance to their wellbeing. After the second U.S. occupation of the island, Cubans realized that keeping the island free of yellow fever was critical to their independence but refused to accept that the U.S. domination that made these efforts so paramount was legitimate.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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History, Latin American.

Epidemic invasions: Yellow fever, public health, and the limits of Cuban independence, 1878 through the early Republic.
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