When disease came to this country : epidemics and colonialism in northern North America /
Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism throughout the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern peoples, Liza Piper illuminates the ecological, spatial and colonial relationshi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Global health histories (Series)
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| Summary: | Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism throughout the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern peoples, Liza Piper illuminates the ecological, spatial and colonial relationships that allowed diseases, influenza, measles and tuberculosis in particular, to flourish between 1860 and 1940 along the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers. Making detailed use of Indigenous oral histories alongside English- and French-language archives and emphasizing environmental as well as social and cultural factors, When Disease Came to This Country shows how colonial ideas about northern Indigenous immunity to disease were rooted in the racialized structures of colonialism that transformed northern Indigenous lives and lands and shaped mid-twentieth-century biomedical research. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009320870 1009320874 |