Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World

doi:10.5771/9781793651235

Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World

1. Edition 2023

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ISBN print: 978-1-7936-5122-8
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Abstract

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.

Schlagworte

colonial policies disease indigenous medicine epidemics public health quarantine

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i–x Preface i–x
1–16 Introduction 1–16
- Notes
- Bibliography
17–40 Chapter 1: Quarantine, Epidemics and Health: Framing Indigenous Engagements and Resistance in Colonial India 17–40
41–64 Chapter 2: The Uncouth Woes: The Prevalence of Venereal Diseases in the British or European Troops in India (ca. 1864–1918) 41–64
65–84 Chapter 3: Bubonic Plague and State Control in Zanzibar (ca. 1897–1905) 65–84
85–114 Chapter 4: Cape of Contagion: Cape Town, Contagion and the Curse of Smallpox (ca. 1713, 1755 and 1767) 85–114
115–136 Chapter 5: Measles: The Undercover Killer 115–136
137–166 Chapter 6: Merchants, Explorers and Academicians: Scientific Travel from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries 137–166
167–188 Chapter 7: The Continuing Search for Green Gold: Quest for Medical Plants in the Colonial Period 167–188
189–210 Chapter 8: Disease and Dependency in Kweneng, Botswana (ca. 1880–1930) 189–210
211–234 Chapter 9: Colonialism, Epidemics and the Indian Experience (ca. 1817–1920) 211–234
235–256 Chapter 10: Colonization, Disease and Displacement in Australia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 235–256
257–282 Chapter 11: Epidemic and the Raj: Locating Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal 257–282
283–310 Chapter 12: Contagious Labour and Epidemics in Colonial India and South Africa 283–310
311–336 Chapter 13: Epidemics and the Indigenous Tribes: Sub-Himalayan Bengal and the Jungle Mahals (ca. 1860–1930) 311–336
337–358 Chapter 14: A Cinderella Disease: Colonialism and the Spread of Tuberculosis 337–358
359–364 Index 359–364
365–370 About the Contributors 365–370

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