Mark Allan Goldberg is an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Note on Racial and Ethnic Terminology

Chapter 1: Medicine and Spanish Conquest: Health and Healing in Late Colonial Texas

Chapter 2: The Health of the Missions: Spanish Friars, Coastal Indians, and Missionization in the Gulf Coast

Chapter 3: Cholera and Nation: Epidemic Disease, Healing, and State Formation in Northern Mexico

Chapter 4: Making Healthy American Settlements: U.S. Expansion and Anglo American, Comanche, and Black Slave Health in Nineteenth-Century Central Texas

Chapter 5: Healthy Anglos, Unhealthy Mexicans: Health, Race, and Medicine in South Texas

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Mark Allan Goldberg is an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston.