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Epidemics, Empire, and Environments : Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History of the Urban Environment SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822981046
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Epidemics, Empire, and EnvironmentsDDC classification:
  • 616.9/32
LOC classification:
  • RC134
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 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 Cholera -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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 environment and the urgency placed on disease control.
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Intro -- Contents -- 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 Cholera -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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 environment and the urgency placed on disease control.

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