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Innovative, interdisciplinary study of the refashioning of reactions to leprosy in the modern colonial period.
Innovative, interdisciplinary study of the refashioning of reactions to leprosy in the modern colonial period.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Describing, imagining and defining leprosy 1770-1867; 2. Scientists discuss the causes of leprosy, and the disease becomes a public issue in Britain and its empire 1867-98; 3. The fear of degeneration: leprosy in the tropics and the metropolis at the fin de siecle; 4. Segregation in the high imperial era: island leper colonies on Hawaii, at the Cape, in Australia and New Zealand; 5. Concentrating and isolating racialised others, the diseased and the deviant: the idea of the colony in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 6. Writers visiting leper colonies: Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Graham Greene and Paul Theroux; Postscript.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
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Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Jahrhundert: | Neuzeit |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780521123129 |
ISBN-10: | 0521123127 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Edmond, Rod
Rod, Edmond |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 16 mm |
Von/Mit: | Rod Edmond (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 31.08.2009 |
Gewicht: | 0,44 kg |