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When Disease Came to This Country

Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America
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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 Biography:

Liza Piper is Professor of History at the University of Alberta whose previous work includes The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada (2009).
Release date Australia
August 10th, 2023
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  • General (US: Trade)
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Pages
365
ISBN-13
9781009320870
Product ID
36566750

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