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Language: en
Pages: 289
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-17 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientifi
Language: en
Pages: 392
Pages: 392
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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
Language: en
Pages: 295
Pages: 295
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-05 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 279
Pages: 279
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-11 - Publisher: Springer
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