| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Elizabeth A. Fenn. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. New York: Hill and Wang. 2001. Pp. xiv, 370. $25.00.

Elizabeth A. Fenn has written a remarkable book that deals with the smallpox epidemic from 1775 to 1782. The work spans all of North America from Boston to San Diego and Mexico City to York Factory. Variola major, the deadly virus commonly called smallpox, ravaged most of North America during a historic period that witnessed the American Revolution, Spanish exploration of the Pacific Coast, establishment of Roman Catholic missions, the growth of trade among American Indians, and the expansion of commerce between Natives and fur traders. By the second half of the eighteenth century, smallpox had already ravaged the indigenous peoples of the Americas, who had also suffered the wrath of influenza, cholera, malaria, diphtheria, whooping cough, scarlet fever, measles, and other maladies. By the era of the American Revolution, many Indian tribes had been decimated by disease, but the smallpox epidemic of the 1770s wreaked havoc on Indians and non-Indians alike, affecting people in a huge geographical area. . . .

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