Contagion and Enclaves : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India /
Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;
10. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market. It establishes the vital link between medicine, the political economy and the social history of colonialism. It demonstrates that while enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of articulation of colonial power and economy, they were not isolated sites. The book shows that the critical aspect of the enclaves was in their interconnectedness; with other enclaves, with the global economy and international medical research. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846317835 1846317835 9781781386361 1781386366 |