When Disease Came to This Country (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009320870)

Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism in the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern peoples, Liza Piper illuminates the ecological, spatial, and colonial relationships that allowed diseases - influenza, measles, and tuberculosis in particular - to flourish between 1860 and 1940 along the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers. Making detailed use of Indigenous oral histories alongside English and French language archives and emphasising environmental alongside social and cultural factors, When Disease Came to this Country shows how colonial ideas about northern Indigenous immunity to disease were rooted in the racialized structures of colonialism that transformed northern Indigenous lives and lands, and shaped mid-twentieth century biomedical research.

Author: Liza Piper
ISBN-10: 1009320874
ISBN-13: 9781009320870
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2023
Pages: 365
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d