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Beastly encounters of the Raj

Author : Saurabh Mishra
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 0719098017
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Beastly encounters of the Raj written by Saurabh Mishra and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history of human health in the subcontinent has received a fair amount of attention in the last few decades, but nearly all existing texts have completely ignored the question of animal health. This book will not only fill this gap, but also provide fresh perspectives and insights that might challenge existing arguments. At the same time, this volume is a social history of cattle in India. Keeping the question of livestock at the centre, it explores a range of themes such as famines, agrarian relations, urbanisation, middle-class attitudes, caste formations etc. The overall aim is to integrate medical history with social history in a way that has not often been attempted.

Portals of Tomorrow

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Portals of Tomorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare

Author : James L. Hevia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656231X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare written by James L. Hevia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousands of camels of the Indus River basin to move supplies into and out of contested areas—a system that wreaked havoc on the delicately balanced multispecies environment of humans, animals, plants, and microbes living in this region of Northwest India. In Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare, James Hevia examines the use of camels, mules, and donkeys in colonial campaigns of conquest and pacification, starting with the Second Afghan War—during which an astonishing 50,000 to 60,000 camels perished—and ending in the early twentieth century. Hevia explains how during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new set of human-animal relations were created as European powers and the United States expanded their colonial possessions and attempted to put both local economies and ecologies in the service of resource extraction. The results were devastating to animals and human communities alike, disrupting centuries-old ecological and economic relationships. And those effects were lasting: Hevia shows how a number of the key issues faced by the postcolonial nation-state of Pakistan—such as shortages of clean water for agriculture, humans, and animals, and limited resources for dealing with infectious diseases—can be directly traced to decisions made in the colonial past. An innovative study of an underexplored historical moment, Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare opens up the animal studies to non-Western contexts and provides an empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of multispecies historical ecology.

Modern Maternities

Author : Ranjana Saha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100090539X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Modern Maternities written by Ranjana Saha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1) This is one of the first systematic historical account of Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta. 2) It has rich archival sources like rare medical handbooks and periodicals, governmental proceedings, child welfare exhibition and conference reports, personal papers, memoirs, illustrations and advertisements. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of social history and colonial history across UK.

Colonizing Animals

Author : Jonathan Saha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108839401
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Colonizing Animals written by Jonathan Saha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 populated by animals.

Meat, Mercy, Morality

Author : Samiparna Samanta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190993936
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Meat, Mercy, Morality written by Samiparna Samanta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book disentangles complex discourses around humanitarianism to understand the nature of British colonialism in India. It contends that the colonial project of animal protection in late nineteenth-century Bengal mirrored an irony. Emerging notions of public health and debates on cruelty against animals exposed the disjunction between the claims of a benevolent Empire and a powerful imperial reality where the state constantly sought to discipline its subjects-both human and nonhuman. Centered around stories of animals as diseased, eaten, and overworked, the book shows how such contests over appropriate measures for controlling animals became part of wider discussions surrounding environmental ethics, diet, sanitation, and the politics of race and class. The author combines history with archive, arguing that colonial humanitarianism was not only an idiom of rule, but was also translated into Bengali dietetics, anxieties, vegetarianism, and vigilantism, the effect of which can be seen in contemporary politics of animal slaughter in India

Toxic Histories

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107126975
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Toxic Histories written by David Arnold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the challenge that India's poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology's creation of a public role for science.

Pathogens Crossing Borders

Author : Cornelia Knab
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000572668
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Pathogens Crossing Borders written by Cornelia Knab and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing globalization of trade, travel and transport since the mid-19th century had unwelcome consequences – one of them was the spread of contagious animal diseases over greater distances in a shorter time than ever before. Borders and national control strategies proved to be insufficient to stop the pathogens. Not surprisingly, the issue of epizootics (epidemics of animals) was among the first topics to be addressed by international meetings from the 1860s onwards. Pathogens Crossing Borders explores the history of international efforts to contain and prevent the spread of animal diseases from the early 1860s to the years after the Second World War. As an innovative contribution to global history and the history of internationalism, the book investigates how disease experts, politicians and state authorities developed concepts, practices and institutional structures at the international level to tackle the spread of animal diseases across borders. By following their activities in dealing with a problem area which was – and is today – of enormous political, social, public health and economic relevance, the book reveals the historical challenges of finding common international responses to complex and pressing global issues for which there are no easy solutions.

Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains

Author : Christos Lynteris
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030267954
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains written by Christos Lynteris and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways in which animals have come to be framed as ‘epidemic villains’ since the turn of the nineteenth century. Providing epistemological and social histories of non-human epidemic blame, as well as ethnographic perspectives on its recent manifestations, the essays explore this cornerstone of modern epidemiology and public health alongside its continuing importance in today’s world. Covering diverse regions, the book argues that framing animals as spreaders and reservoirs of infectious diseases – from plague to rabies to Ebola – is an integral aspect not only to scientific breakthroughs but also to the ideological and biopolitical apparatus of modern medicine. As the first book to consider the impact of the image of non-human disease hosts and vectors on medicine and public health, it offers a major contribution to our understanding of human-animal interaction under the shadow of global epidemic threat.

The Rinderpest Campaigns

Author : Amanda Kay McVety
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422748
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Rinderpest Campaigns written by Amanda Kay McVety and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.

Critical Approaches to Science and Religion

Author : Myrna Perez Sheldon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556543
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Critical Approaches to Science and Religion written by Myrna Perez Sheldon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and ecological concerns long part of the field but never properly centered. The works that make up this volume are not preoccupied with traditional philosophical or theological issues. Instead, the book draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it develops critical perspectives by examining how histories of empire, slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy have shaped the many relationships between science and religion in the modern era. In so doing, this book lays the groundwork for scholars interested in speaking directly to matters such as climate change, structural racism, immigration, health care, reproductive justice, and sexual identity.

Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia

Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429774699
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia written by Harald Fischer-Tiné and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia. It explores the classic works of earlier generations of historians and offers an introduction to the rapid and multifaceted development of historical research on colonial South Asia since the 1990s. Covering economic history, political history, and social history and offering insights from other disciplines and ‘turns’ within the mainstream of history, the handbook is structured in six parts: Overarching Themes and Debates The World of Economy and Labour Creating and Keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law, and Education Environment and Space Culture, Media, and the Everyday Colonial South Asia in the World The editors have assembled a group of leading international scholars of South Asian history and related disciplines to introduce a broad readership into the respective subfields and research topics. Designed to serve as a comprehensive and nuanced yet readable introduction to the vast field of the history of colonialism in the Indian subcontinent, the handbook will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of South Asian history, imperial and colonial history, and global and world history.

History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India

Author : Suvobrata Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000485005
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India written by Suvobrata Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East–West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and postcolonial milieu. An indispensable text on South Asia’s experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS).

Serving the empire in the Great War

Author : Andrekos Varnava
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526103680
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Serving the empire in the Great War written by Andrekos Varnava and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the growing literature on the role of the British non-settler empire in the Great War by exploring the service of the Cypriot Mule Corps on the Salonica Front, and after the war in Constantinople. Varnava encompasses all aspects of the story of the Mule Corps, from the role of the animals to the experiences of the men driving them both during and after the war, as well as how and why this significant story in the history of Cyprus and the British Empire has been forgotten. The book will be of great value to anyone interested in the impact of the Great War upon the British Empire in the Mediterranean, and vice- versa.

Quarantine

Author : Alison Bashford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350307599
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Quarantine written by Alison Bashford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge. This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce. With case studies from as far afield as the Red Sea, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and from the early modern period forward, this book provides an invaluable insight into the history of quarantine.

A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine

Author : Susan D. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108356249
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine written by Susan D. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ayurvedic texts to botanical medicines to genomics, ideas and expertise about veterinary healing have circulated between cultures through travel, trade, and conflict. In this broad-ranging and accessible study spanning 400 years of history, Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees present the first global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing. Drawing on inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives, this book addresses how attitudes toward animals, disease causation theories, wars, problems of food insecurity and the professionalization and spread of European veterinary education have shaped new domains for animal healing, such as preventive medicine in intensive animal agriculture and the need for veterinarians specializing in zoo animals, wildlife, and pets. It concludes by considering the politicization of animal protection, changes in the global veterinary workforce, and concerns about disease and climate change. As mediators between humans and animals, veterinarians and other animal healers have both shaped, and been shaped by, the social, cultural, and economic roles of animals over time.

Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India

Author : Biswamoy Pati
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351262181
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India written by Biswamoy Pati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era. These range from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernization in the context of British rule. The volume reflects the diversity of the field and showcases exciting new scholarship from early-career researchers as well as more established scholars by bringing to light many locations and dimensions of medicine and modernity. The essays have several common themes and together offer important insights into South Asia’s experience of modernity in the years before independence. Cutting across modernity and colonialism, some of the key themes explored here include issues of race, gender, sexuality, law, mental health, famine, disease, religion, missionary medicine, medical research, tensions between and within different medical traditions and practices and India’s place in an international context. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, sociology, politics and anthropology as well as specialists in the history of medicine.