Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World

Poonam Bala; Russel Viljoen

doi:10.5771/9781793651235

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5122-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5123-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 370
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
1. Notes No access
2. Bibliography No access
1. Policies and Reforms No access
2. Plague, Medical Knowledge and Public Health No access
3. Quarantine: A Background No access
4. Popular Response, Quarantine and Nationalistic Fervour No access
5. Concluding Remarks No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Promiscuity, Race and Sex: The VD in the British Troops in India (c. 1860s–1880s) No access
2. Liberalism, Empire and Health: The Contentions on the Effect of VD on the European Troops in India (c. 1890s–1910s) No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. The Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Zanzibar Town in 1905 No access
2. Government’s Reactions to Bubonic Plague No access
3. Responses of the Urban Population No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Prelude to Smallpox No access
2. Smallpox in Cape Town, 1713, 1755 and 1767 No access
3. Curse of Smallpox No access
4. Epilogue No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
7. Primary Sources No access
8. Websites No access
1. Measles, the Disease No access
2. Measles in the Post-Columbian New World No access
3. Measles in the Pacific Islands No access
4. The Concentration Camps of the South African War (1899–1902) No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Destinations No access
2. Agents of Scientific Production No access
3. Spaces of Science No access
4. Making Knowledge No access
5. Diseases and Therapeutics No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. 1. 1820–1850 No access
2. 1. CIDC (1896) No access
  2. The Drug Enquiry Committee of 1930 and Indigenous Responses No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Shaken Kingdom No access
2. Migrant Labour No access
3. Driedag No access
4. Faith and Fitness No access
5. ‘The Wrong People Rule’ No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. 1. 1. Archives No access
    2. BOOKS AND ARTICLES No access
  2. 1. BOOKS, ARTICLES No access
1. Cholera Pandemic and the Emergence of ‘Sanitary Regimes’ No access
2. Bubonic Plague and the Epidemic Diseases Act No access
3. Spanish Influenza and the Unfathomable Tragedy No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Colonization and Indigenous Health No access
3. Smallpox No access
4. Sexually Transmitted Venereal Diseases and a Continuing History of Violence against Indigenous Women No access
5. Violence, Disease, Terra Nullius, the White Australia Policy and Colonization No access
6. Indigenous Mental Health, Suicide, Chronic Disease and Colonization No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Railroads and Embankments No access
2. Indigenous Water Management Practices No access
3. Drainage Obstruction No access
4. River Decay and Siltation No access
5. Poverty and Malnutrition No access
6. Changes in the Crop Pattern No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. 1. 1. West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta No access
  2. A. Secondary Sources No access
1. Plague Work in the Cape Colony No access
2. Excremental Obsessions No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. 1. Archival collections No access
  2. Published sources No access
1. The Ecology-Environmental Paradigm No access
2. The Myth of Tribal Immunity No access
3. Oral Testimonies No access
4. Charitable Organizations at Work No access
5. The Impact of Various Fevers No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. 1. Primary Sources No access
  2. 1. Books/Articles No access
    2. Oral Testimonies No access
1. Men, Money and Machine: Metropolitan Experience No access
2. Tuberculosis in Indian Ocean World No access
3. Understanding Tuberculosis in ‘Native Environment’ No access
4. 1. Responding to Disease: Indian Medical World and Tuberculosis in British India No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 359 - 364
About the Contributors No access Pages 365 - 370