Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World

Herausgeber: Bala, Poonam; Viljoen, Russel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9781793651228
• ISBN-10: 1793651221
• Artikelnr.: 66352788

Autorenporträt

Poonam Bala is visiting scholar at Cleveland State University and professor extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. Russel Viljoen is professor of history at the University of South Africa

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Quarantine, Epidemic and Health: Framing Indigenous Engagements
and Resistance in Colonial India
Poonam Bala
Chapter 2 The Uncouth Woes: The Prevalence of Venereal Disease in the
British or European Troops in India c 1864-1918
Apalak Das
Chapter 3 Bubonic Plague and State Control in Zanzibar c.1897 1905
Amina Ameir Issa
Chapter 4 Cape of Contagion: Cape Town, Contagion and the Curse of Smallpox
c.1713, 1755 and 1767
Russel S.Viljoen
Chapter 5 Measles: The Undercover Killer
Elizabeth van Heyningen
Chapter 6 Slave Traders, Merchants, Explorers and Academicians: The
Historiography of Scientific Travel from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth
Centuries
Matthew E. Franco
Chapter 7 The Continuing Search for Green Gold: Quest for Medical Plants in
Colonial Period
Sohini Das
Chapter 8 Disease and Dependency in Kweneng Botswana, c.1880-1930
Jeff Ramsay
Chapter 9 Colonialism, Epidemics and the Indian Experience c.1817-1920
Saurav Kumar Rai
Chapter 10 Colonisation, Disease and Displacement in Australia- 18th and 19
th centuries
Mark F.Briskey
Chapter 11 Epidemic and the Raj: Locating Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal
Arabinda Samanta
Chapter 12 Contagious Labour and Epidemics in Colonial India and South
Africa Jacob Steere-Williams
Chapter 13 Epidemics and The Indigenous Tribes: Sub-Himalayan Bengal and
The Jungle Mahals c.1860-1930
Sahara Ahmed
Chapter 14 A Cinderella Disease: Colonialism and the Spread of Tuberculosis
Suvankar Dey
Index