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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsChapter 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 19th 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
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