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Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World
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Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World
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The essays in this volume examine the nature and extent of disease on indigenous communities and local populations located within the vast regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans as a result of colonial sea power and colonial conquest. While this established a long-term impact of disease on populations, the essays also offer insights into the dynamics of these populations in resisting colonial intrusions and introduction of disease to newly-acquired territories.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Quarantine, Epidemics and Health: Framing Indigenous Engagements and Resistance in Colonial India
- Chapter 2: The Uncouth Woes: The Prevalence of Venereal Diseases in the British or European Troops in India (ca. 1864–1918)
- Chapter 3: Bubonic Plague and State Control in Zanzibar (ca. 1897–1905)
- Chapter 4: Cape of Contagion: Cape Town, Contagion and the Curse of Smallpox (ca. 1713, 1755 and 1767)
- Chapter 5: Measles: The Undercover Killer
- Chapter 6: Merchants, Explorers and Academicians: Scientific Travel from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
- Chapter 7: The Continuing Search for Green Gold: Quest for Medical Plants in the Colonial Period
- Chapter 8: Disease and Dependency in Kweneng, Botswana (ca. 1880–1930)
- Chapter 9: Colonialism, Epidemics and the Indian Experience (ca. 1817–1920)
- Chapter 10: Colonization, Disease and Displacement in Australia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Chapter 11: Epidemic and the Raj: Locating Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal
- Chapter 12: Contagious Labour and Epidemics in Colonial India and South Africa
- Chapter 13: Epidemics and the Indigenous Tribes: Sub-Himalayan Bengal and the Jungle Mahals (ca. 1860–1930)
- Chapter 14: A Cinderella Disease: Colonialism and the Spread of Tuberculosis
- Index
- About the Contributors
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