Jonathan Lamb
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Honorable Mention for the 2018 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies" Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His many books include The Things Things Say (Princeton) and The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century.
An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth century
Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel,...