It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion by Emily K. Abel
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Though notorious for its polluted air today, the city of Los Angeles once touted itself as a health resort. After the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1876, publicists launched a campaign to portray the city as the promised land, circulating countless stories of miraculous cures for the sick and debilitated. As more and more migrants poured in, however, a gap emerged between the city’s glittering image and its dark reality. Emily K. Abel shows how the association of the disease with “tramps” during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary...
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion by Emily K. Abel is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.
This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion aloud.
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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