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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Zeheter, Michael, author.
Imprint:	Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
Description:	ix, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	History of the urban environment History of the urban environment.
Subject:	Cholera -- India -- History -- 19th century. Cholera -- Canada -- History -- 19th century. Epidemics -- India. Epidemics -- Canada. Cholera -- Environmental aspects. Cholera. Cholera. Epidemics. Canada. India. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10506413

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ISBN:	9780822944461 0822944464
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and 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"--

Table of 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

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