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Contagion and Enclaves
Nandini Bhattacharya
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Description for Contagion and Enclaves
Hardcover. 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. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 219 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; HBTQ; MBX; MMRT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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 ... Read more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Series
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318290
SKU
V9781846318290
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Ref
99-50
About Nandini Bhattacharya
Dr Nandini Bhattacharya is Wellcome Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leicester.
Reviews for Contagion and Enclaves
... this is an interesting book with several fresh perspectives. ... a book that adds greatly to our understanding of European perceptions of the ‘tropics’
Social History of Medicine, vol 27, no 1
The Postcolonialism across the Disciplines Series seeks to span “the traditional range of disciplines… in postcolonial studies but also those less acknowledged” (front matter). Nandini ... Read more
Social History of Medicine, vol 27, no 1
The Postcolonialism across the Disciplines Series seeks to span “the traditional range of disciplines… in postcolonial studies but also those less acknowledged” (front matter). Nandini ... Read more