The Great Epizootic of 1872–73: Networks of Animal Disease in North American Urban Environments
| dc.contributor.author | Kheraj, Sean | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-08T21:28:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-08T21:28:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article examines the outbreak of an unknown illness (later thought to be equine influenza) among the horses of Toronto and its subsequent spread as a continent-wide panzootic. Known as the Great Epizootic, the illness infected horses in nearly every major urban center in Canada and the United States over a 50-week period beginning in late September 1872. The Great Epizootic not only illustrated the centrality of horses to the functioning of nineteenth-century North American cities, but it also demonstrated that these cities generated ecological conditions and a networked disease pool capable of supporting the rapid spread of animal disease on a continental scale in localities from widely divergent geographies. This article invites environmental historians to broaden their view of cities to consider the ways in which networked urbanization produced forms of historical biotic homogenization that could result in the rapid and widespread outbreak of disease. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kheraj, Sean. "The Great Epizootic of 1872–73: Networks of Animal Disease in North American Urban Environments," Environmental History, 23, no. 3 (July 2018): 495–521, https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emy010. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emy010 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/37514 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Environmental History, Oxford University Press | en_US |
| dc.rights | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Environmental History following peer review. The version of record is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/envhis/advance-article/doi/10.1093/envhis/emy010/4985859?guestAccessKey=aca75b8b-ab50-481f-9375-a908eed4ea7c. | en_US |
| dc.rights.article | https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/THE_GREAT_EPIZOOTIC/full | en_US |
| dc.rights.journal | https://environmentalhistory.net/ | en_US |
| dc.rights.publisher | https://academic.oup.com/envhis | en_US |
| dc.subject | environmental history | en_US |
| dc.subject | urban history | en_US |
| dc.subject | animals | en_US |
| dc.subject | horses | en_US |
| dc.subject | epizootic | en_US |
| dc.subject | disease | en_US |
| dc.subject | railways | en_US |
| dc.subject | GIS | en_US |
| dc.title | The Great Epizootic of 1872–73: Networks of Animal Disease in North American Urban Environments | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |