Epidemic encounters, communities, and practices in the colonial world / edited by Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen.

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

x, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction: Understanding epidemics, colonial encounters and communities / Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen -- Quarantine, epidemics and health : framing indigenous engagements and resistance in colonial India / Poonam Bala -- The uncouth woes : the prevalence of venereal diseases in the British or European troops in India (ca. 1864-1918) / Apalak Das -- Bubonic plague and state control in Zanzibar (ca. 1897-1905) / Amina Ameir Issa -- Cape of contagion : Cape Town, contagion and the curse of smallpox (ca. 1713, 1755, and 1767) / Russel Viljoen -- Measles : the undercover killer / Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Merchants, explorers and academicians : scientific travel from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Matthew E. Franco -- The continuing search for green gold : quest for medical plants in the colonial period / Sohini Das -- Disease and dependency in Kweneng Botswana (ca. 1880-1930) / Jeff Ramsay -- Colonialism, epidemics and the Indian experience (ca. 1817-1920) / Saurav Kumar Rai -- Colonization, disease and displacement in Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Mark F. Briskey -- Epidemic and the raj : locating malarial fever in colonial Bengal / Arabinda Samanta -- Contagious labour and epidemics in colonial India and South Africa / Jacob Steere-Williams -- Epidemics and the indigenous tribes : sub-Himalayan Bengal and the Jungle Mahals (ca. 1860-1930) / Sahara Ahmed -- A Cinderella disease : colonialism and the spread of tuberculosis / Suvankar Dey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.