Leprosy and Empire

Rod (University of Kent, Canterbury) Edmond

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missionaries were thought exposed to the risk of infection, which might be carried back to Britain.

ISBN-13
9780521123129
ISBN-10
0521123127
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
Publication date
2009-11-12
Pages
268
Dimensions
228x155x18
Weight
422