"Colonial conquest and the subsequent introduction of diverse diseases has reshaped the destiny of communities around the globe for centuries. Drawing on untapped archival material on India, Africa, and Australia, these essays offer a counternarrative of events and establish important links between existing and emerging diseases in our global world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Contents
Introduction : understanding epidemics, colonial encounters and communities / Poonam Bala and Russel S. Viljoen
Quarantine, epidemics and health : framing indigenous engagements and resistance in colonial India / Poonam Bala
The uncouth woes : the prevalence of venereal disease in the British or European troops in India circa 1864-1918 / Apalak Das
Bubonic plague and state control in Zanzibar circa 1897-1905 / Amina Ameir Issa
Cape of contagion : Cape Town, contagion and the curse of smallpox circa 1713, 1755, and 1767 / Russel S. Viljoen
Measles : the undercover killer / Elizabeth van Heyningen
Slave traders, merchants, explorers and academicians : the historiography of scientific travel from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Matthew E. Franco
The continuing search for green gold : quest for medical plants in the colonial period / Sohini Das
Disease and dependency in Kweneng Botswana, circa 1880-1930 / Jeff Ramsay
Colonialism, epidemics and the Indian experience circa 1817-1920 / Saurav Kumar Rai
Colonisation, disease and displacement in Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Mark F. Briskey
Epidemic and the raj : locating malarial fever in colonial Bengal / Arabinda Samanta
Contagious labour and epidemics in colonial India and South Africa / Jacob Steere-Williams
Epidemics and the indigenous tribes : sub-Himalayan Bengal and the Jungle Mahals circa 1860-1930 / Sahara Ahmed
A Cinderella disease : colonialism and the spread of tuberculosis / Suvankar Dey.
ISBN
9781793651235 (electronic book)
179365123X (electronic book)
LCCN
2022052627
OCLC
1357155631
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