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Imperial Contagions argues that there was no straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to a newer emphasis on prevention and treat
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Authors: Khary Oronde Polk
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-17 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientifi
Terror Epidemics
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Pages: 392
Authors: Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
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Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to conta
A Modern Contagion
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Authors: Amir A. Afkhami
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How deadly cholera pandemics transformed modern Iran. Pandemic cholera reached Iran for the first of many times in 1821, assisted by Britain's territorial expan
Imperial Hygiene
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Pages: 279
Authors: A. Bashford
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This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallp