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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Piper, Liza, 1978- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2023].
Series:	Global health histories (Series)
Subjects:	Epidemics > Yukon > History. Epidemics > Northwest Territories > History. Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene > Yukon. Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene > Northwest Territories. Yukon > History. Northwest Territories > History.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. When scarlet fever came to this country
3. Colonial motifs and medicine
4. The gold rush and after
5. Infrastructures of extraction, sanitation, and care
6. Race, gender, and control
7. Experiences of influenza
8. Colonial ecologies
9. A smouldering fire
10. Epilogue and conclusions.