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The colonial disease: a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940

Maryinez Lyons 1992 © Cambridge University Press
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  • 9780521403504 (hardcover)
  • 9780521524520 (paper)
  • 9780511097966 (ebook)
Subject
  • African
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of maps (page ix)
  • List of plates (page x)
  • List of tables (page xi)
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • List of abbreviations (page xv)
  • 1 Disease and medicine in the history of Africa (page 1)
  • 2 From private empire to public colony (page 8)
  • 3 Mise en valeur: economic exploitation (page 25)
  • 4 Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness (page 37)
  • 5 'The Lure of the Exotic': sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperialism (page 64)
  • 6 Discovery: Liverpool scientists in the Congo (page 76)
  • 7 The campaign. Part one: sleeping sickness and social medicine (page 102)
  • 8 The campaign. Part two: the surveys and tensions (page 137)
  • 9 The African response (page 162)
  • 10 Public health, social engineering and African lives (page 199)
  • 11 Conclusion and legacy (page 223)
  • Appendices (page 234)
  • Notes (page 248)
  • Select bibliography (page 296)
  • Index (page 329)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CJAS 28.3 (1994): 543-544 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0008-3968%281994%2928%3A3%3C543%3ATCDASH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
ISIS 84.4 (Dec. 1993): 830-831 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199312%2984%3A4%3C830%3ATCDASH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
JSAS 19.4 (Dec. 1993): 736-738 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0305-7070%28199312%2919%3A4%3C736%3ATCDASH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
AHR 98.3 (Jun. 1993): 921-922 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199306%2998%3A3%3C921%3ATCDASH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
IJAHS 26.3 (1993): 645-647 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281993%2926%3A3%3C645%3ATCDASH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
JAFH 34.1 (1993): 159-161 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8537%281993%2934%3A1%3C159%3ASS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
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