David Sowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 515050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Sowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Sowell |
| SIGNATURE | SOWELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Juniata College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Borderlands Curanderos
Curanderas/os constituted the most common healers in Latin America until the contemporary era. Largely rooted in Catholic and humoral belief systems blended with Indigenous or African healing patterns, most labored within a local setting and are practically absent from historical scholarship due to the social nature of their healing. As social healers, they blended into communities and did not seek the exclusive privileges of professional healers…
Sugarcane and Rum
Microhistory can reveal textures of human society often omitted from the grand scope of history. John Gust and Jennifer Mathews undertake to reveal the human dimensions of sugar and rum production on two small mills—Xuxub and San Eusebio—in the Yalahau region of northeast Yucatán. They utilize archaeology to supplement the scant historical record of the region. The fertile area is well watered and marshy and flows north into the isolated Laguna Y…
Paul Ramírez. Enlightened Immunity
Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason is a stellar addition to the history of medicine in Mexico and Latin America. Paul Ramírez locates the work within “the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century transition in medical techniques, theories, and policies within a backstory of epidemic management in colonial Mexico” (18). Colonial officials sought to monitor both the introduction of enlightened me…
Matthew James Crawford. The Andean Wonder Drug
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800 is a welcome addition to the literature on quina, the bark from the cinchona tree. Quina is the natural source of quinine, an invaluable drug used to reduce fevers, especially those associated with malaria. Matthew James Crawford’s work adds substantially to the epistemic location of quina within the Atlantic world by describing the tortured efforts of B…
Días
The Spanish reconquest of Colombia required the capture of Cartagena, a military bastion that had never fallen to the enemy. Pablo Morillo laid siege to the city in mid-August 1815, finally forcing it to surrender on December 6. Though the account of the Colombian defense of the city is well known, Rodolfo Segovia adds considerable information to the Spanish side, with an emphasis on the leadership of Morillo, the composition and actions of his a…
Population Growth in Late-Nineteenth-Century Bogotá
A lack of reliable statistical information hampers the analysis of Bogotá’s nineteenth-century demographic history. Census data suggest rapid changes—both declines and increases—that challenge the accuracy of official statistics. Two heretofore unused sources suggest a more stable rate of demographic expansion over the course of the nineteenth century, indicating that the 1851 and 1870 censuses seriously undercounted the city’s residents. The rap…
Diseased Relations
Heather McCrea offers an innovative understanding of public health in Yucatán through her study of smallpox, cholera, and yellow fever epidemics, which “are conceptualized as diseased ‘moments’ ” that provide “insight into the processes of state-building and identity formation” (p. 7). McCrea seeks to “show how the development of public health is really embedded in interventions that collectively changed the dynamic interchange between the indige…
Curar, sanar y educar
Curar, sanar y educar reflects the maturation of the history of medicine in Mexico. The 11 articles included in the collection originated in a seminar on the social and cultural history of health in Mexico, and a 2006 conference with similar themes. They cover much of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Most chapters focus on Mexico City, public health agencies, and the process of state formation. Claudia Agostoni …
Historia, salud y globalización
edited by Marcos Cueto and Victor Zamora, Lima, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, 2006, 240 pp., including notes, appendix, bibliography, US$7.50 (25.00 Peruvian Soles) (paperback), ISBN 9972-5
A Pest in the Land
Book Review| January 01 2005 A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective By Suzanne Alchon. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ix +214 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, appendix, epilogue, notes,bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.) David Sowell David Sowell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 200–201. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-1-…
Entre la marginalidad social y los orígenes de la salud pública
The history of leprosy offers rich terrain for social analysis. The uncleanliness associated with biblical scripture has resulted in dense legal and social efforts to isolate lepers from “healthy” society throughout the Western world. Not until 1874 did Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen isolate the organism (Mycobacterium leprae) that caused the disease, and not until the 1950s was an effective treatment developed. Until that time, persons afflicted …
From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism
Contending Medical Ideologies and State Formation
This article addresses the encounter between contending medical ideologies in nineteenth-century Colombia. The first era of medical pluralism, in colonial Latin America, developed from the imposition of Hispanic medicine on existing indigenous medical systems through an imperial structure. This produced a "colonial medical spectrum" incorporating various medical ideologies that came under attack by practitioners of scientific medicine in the 1800…
The Mexican Treasury
Book Review| October 01 2003 The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández; Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández Edited by Simon Varey. Translated by Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, Simon Varey. (Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press,2000. xix + 281 pp., introduction, illustrations, glossary, appendix, index.$65.00 cloth.)Edited by Simon Varey. Translated by Rafael Chabrán, Cy…
Niños trabajadores y vida cotidiana en Medellín, 1900-1930
García Londoño’s study of Colombia’s leading industrial center identifies the initial decades of the twentieth century as a critical period of change in both attitudes and legislation concerning working children. During those years, youth in Medellín began to be seen less as little adults of the “colonial” environment and more as the distinct children of the “modern” city. The author seeks to illustrate the impact of those changes in both the wor…
Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees
Recent Perspectives on the Latin American City
Repertoires of Contention in Urban Colombia, 1760s-1940s
The Early Colombian Labor Movement
Shaping the Political Arena
La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá, 1846-1865
David Sowell, La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá, 1846-1865: Artisans, Credit, Development, and Savings in Early National Colombia, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 615-638
The Problem of Order in Changing Societies
The 1893bogotazo
Bogotá suffered its most severe outbreak of public violence of the nineteenth century on 15 and 16 January 1893. Indeed apart from thebogotazoof 9 April 1948, it was perhaps the worst violence that the Colombian capital has ever experienced.1For twenty-four hours the city experienced serious social disorder, which was brought under control only by the use of regular army troops at a cost of an unknown number of casualties. Surprisingly, the Janua…
El empresariado colombiano
Sons of the Machine
of the offers a humane and cogent look at culture in Latin America. Through first-hand studies of the processes of social change at three Colombian factories it counters both literary and academic notions of industrial man. It is a book that grew from Charles Savage's frustration and deep curiosity about the alienation among men and of men from their work in the oilfields of South America in the 1950s.Turning away from the business schools' and m…
The 1893bogotazo
Bogotá suffered its most severe outbreak of public violence of the nineteenth century on 15 and 16 January 1893. Indeed apart from thebogotazoof 9 April 1948, it was perhaps the worst violence that the Colombian capital has ever experienced.1For twenty-four hours the city experienced serious social disorder, which was brought under control only by the use of regular army troops at a cost of an unknown number of casualties. Surprisingly, the Janua…
Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees
La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá, 1846-1865
David Sowell, La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá, 1846-1865: Artisans, Credit, Development, and Savings in Early National Colombia, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 615-638
La teoría i la realidad
I N late 1851, the artisan Cruz Ballesteros bitterly criticized members of the Colombian Liberal party in a scathing leaflet entitled La teoria i la realidad. Ballesteros complained that the Democratic Society of Artisans had been manipulated by Liberals to secure that party's rise to power. The society had temporarily set aside its objective of working for the common interests of Bogota's skilled laborers in order to pursue Liberal political vic…
Repertoires of Contention in Urban Colombia, 1760s-1940s
Sons of the Machine
of the offers a humane and cogent look at culture in Latin America. Through first-hand studies of the processes of social change at three Colombian factories it counters both literary and academic notions of industrial man. It is a book that grew from Charles Savage's frustration and deep curiosity about the alienation among men and of men from their work in the oilfields of South America in the 1950s.Turning away from the business schools' and m…
Sons of the Machine
La teoría i la realidad
I N late 1851, the artisan Cruz Ballesteros bitterly criticized members of the Colombian Liberal party in a scathing leaflet entitled La teoria i la realidad. Ballesteros complained that the Democratic Society of Artisans had been manipulated by Liberals to secure that party's rise to power. The society had temporarily set aside its objective of working for the common interests of Bogota's skilled laborers in order to pursue Liberal political vic…
The 1893bogotazo
Bogotá suffered its most severe outbreak of public violence of the nineteenth century on 15 and 16 January 1893. Indeed apart from thebogotazoof 9 April 1948, it was perhaps the worst violence that the Colombian capital has ever experienced.1For twenty-four hours the city experienced serious social disorder, which was brought under control only by the use of regular army troops at a cost of an unknown number of casualties. Surprisingly, the Janua…
El empresariado colombiano
The Problem of Order in Changing Societies
The Early Colombian Labor Movement
Shaping the Political Arena
La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá, 1846-1865
David Sowell, La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá, 1846-1865: Artisans, Credit, Development, and Savings in Early National Colombia, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 615-638
Recent Perspectives on the Latin American City
Repertoires of Contention in Urban Colombia, 1760s-1940s
Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees
Niños trabajadores y vida cotidiana en Medellín, 1900-1930
García Londoño’s study of Colombia’s leading industrial center identifies the initial decades of the twentieth century as a critical period of change in both attitudes and legislation concerning working children. During those years, youth in Medellín began to be seen less as little adults of the “colonial” environment and more as the distinct children of the “modern” city. The author seeks to illustrate the impact of those changes in both the wor…
Contending Medical Ideologies and State Formation
This article addresses the encounter between contending medical ideologies in nineteenth-century Colombia. The first era of medical pluralism, in colonial Latin America, developed from the imposition of Hispanic medicine on existing indigenous medical systems through an imperial structure. This produced a "colonial medical spectrum" incorporating various medical ideologies that came under attack by practitioners of scientific medicine in the 1800…
The Mexican Treasury
Book Review| October 01 2003 The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández; Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández Edited by Simon Varey. Translated by Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, Simon Varey. (Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press,2000. xix + 281 pp., introduction, illustrations, glossary, appendix, index.$65.00 cloth.)Edited by Simon Varey. Translated by Rafael Chabrán, Cy…
From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism
A Pest in the Land
Book Review| January 01 2005 A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective By Suzanne Alchon. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ix +214 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, appendix, epilogue, notes,bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.) David Sowell David Sowell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 200–201. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-1-…
Entre la marginalidad social y los orígenes de la salud pública
The history of leprosy offers rich terrain for social analysis. The uncleanliness associated with biblical scripture has resulted in dense legal and social efforts to isolate lepers from “healthy” society throughout the Western world. Not until 1874 did Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen isolate the organism (Mycobacterium leprae) that caused the disease, and not until the 1950s was an effective treatment developed. Until that time, persons afflicted …
Historia, salud y globalización
edited by Marcos Cueto and Victor Zamora, Lima, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, 2006, 240 pp., including notes, appendix, bibliography, US$7.50 (25.00 Peruvian Soles) (paperback), ISBN 9972-5
Curar, sanar y educar
Curar, sanar y educar reflects the maturation of the history of medicine in Mexico. The 11 articles included in the collection originated in a seminar on the social and cultural history of health in Mexico, and a 2006 conference with similar themes. They cover much of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Most chapters focus on Mexico City, public health agencies, and the process of state formation. Claudia Agostoni …
Population Growth in Late-Nineteenth-Century Bogotá
A lack of reliable statistical information hampers the analysis of Bogotá’s nineteenth-century demographic history. Census data suggest rapid changes—both declines and increases—that challenge the accuracy of official statistics. Two heretofore unused sources suggest a more stable rate of demographic expansion over the course of the nineteenth century, indicating that the 1851 and 1870 censuses seriously undercounted the city’s residents. The rap…
Diseased Relations
Heather McCrea offers an innovative understanding of public health in Yucatán through her study of smallpox, cholera, and yellow fever epidemics, which “are conceptualized as diseased ‘moments’ ” that provide “insight into the processes of state-building and identity formation” (p. 7). McCrea seeks to “show how the development of public health is really embedded in interventions that collectively changed the dynamic interchange between the indige…
Días
The Spanish reconquest of Colombia required the capture of Cartagena, a military bastion that had never fallen to the enemy. Pablo Morillo laid siege to the city in mid-August 1815, finally forcing it to surrender on December 6. Though the account of the Colombian defense of the city is well known, Rodolfo Segovia adds considerable information to the Spanish side, with an emphasis on the leadership of Morillo, the composition and actions of his a…
Matthew James Crawford. The Andean Wonder Drug
The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800 is a welcome addition to the literature on quina, the bark from the cinchona tree. Quina is the natural source of quinine, an invaluable drug used to reduce fevers, especially those associated with malaria. Matthew James Crawford’s work adds substantially to the epistemic location of quina within the Atlantic world by describing the tortured efforts of B…
Paul Ramírez. Enlightened Immunity
Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason is a stellar addition to the history of medicine in Mexico and Latin America. Paul Ramírez locates the work within “the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century transition in medical techniques, theories, and policies within a backstory of epidemic management in colonial Mexico” (18). Colonial officials sought to monitor both the introduction of enlightened me…
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