Building the Worlds That Kill Us by David Rosner, Gerald Mark... - 9780231200851

Columbia University Press

Building the Worlds That Kill UsDisease, Death, and Inequality in American History\nAuthor(s): David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231200851, 978-0231200851\nSynopsis\nWinner, 2025 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award\n\nAcross American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order. From the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious diseases spreading in overcrowded tenements and the vast environmental contamination caused by industrialization, and through climate change and pandemics in the twenty-first century, those in power have left others behind.\n\nThrough the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to th.