Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bala, Poonam; Viljoen, Russel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793651235
• Artikelnr.: 67306272

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 Aust