Epidemics, empire, and environments : Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910 /

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"Michael Zeheter offers a probing case study of the environmental changes made to fight cholera in two markedly different British colonies: Madras in India and Quebec City in Canada. He examines the complex political and economic factors that came to bear on the reshaping of each colony's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zeheter, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
Colección:History of the urban environment.
Temas:
1800-1899
Cholera > India > History > 19th century.
Cholera > Canada > History > 19th century.
Epidemics > India.
Epidemics > Canada.
Cholera > Environmental aspects.
Cholera > India > Madras (District) > History.
Cholera > Québec (Province) > Québec > History.
Cholera.
Cholera
Choléra > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Choléra > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Choléra > Aspect de l'environnement.
Choléra > Québec (Province) > Québec > Histoire.
Choléra.
Épidémies > Inde.
Épidémies > Canada.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > General.
Epidemics
Canada
India
India > Madras (District)
Québec > Québec
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cholera and the Colonial State in Urban Environments; Part I. First Encounters; 1. Strategies of Treatment: Madras, 1818-1833; 2. Strategies of Control: Quebec City, 1832-1834; Part II. Integrating Sanitation; 3. Frequent Visitations: Quebec City, 1840-1854; 4. The Advent of Sanitarianism: Madras, 1840-1857; 5. Sanitary Consensus at Last: Madras, 1858-1883; Part III. Bacteriology and the Promise of Clarity; 6. Finding the Comma Bacillus: Bacteriology in Madras and Quebec City, 1865-1910.
  • Conclusion: The Colonial State and the Elusive Consensus Regarding CholeraNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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