Epidemic encounters, communities, and practices in the colonial world

Introduction : understanding epidemics, colonial encounters and communities / Poonam Bala and Russel S. Viljoen -- Quarantine, epidemics and health : framing indigenous engagements and resistance in colonial India / Poonam Bala -- The uncouth woes : the prevalence of venereal disease in the British or European troops in India circa 1864-1918 / Apalak Das -- Bubonic plague and state control in Zanzibar circa 1897-1905 / Amina Ameir Issa -- Cape of contagion : Cape Town, contagion and the curse of smallpox circa 1713, 1755, and 1767 / Russel S. Viljoen -- Measles : the undercover killer / Elizabeth van Heyningen -- Slave traders, merchants, explorers and academicians : the historiography of scientific travel from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Matthew E. Franco -- The continuing search for green gold : quest for medical plants in the colonial period / Sohini Das -- Disease and dependency in Kweneng Botswana, circa 1880-1930 / Jeff Ramsay -- Colonialism, epidemics and the Indian experience circa 1817-1920 / Saurav Kumar Rai -- Colonisation, disease and displacement in Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Mark F. Briskey -- Epidemic and the raj : locating malarial fever in colonial Bengal / Arabinda Samanta -- Contagious labour and epidemics in colonial India and South Africa / Jacob Steere-Williams -- Epidemics and the indigenous tribes : sub-Himalayan Bengal and the Jungle Mahals circa 1860-1930 / Sahara Ahmed -- A Cinderella disease : colonialism and the spread of tuberculosis / Suvankar Dey.