Medical Missionaries And Colonial Knowledge In West Africa And Europe 1885 1914

Author : Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031271281

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Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914 by Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim Pdf

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.

Author : Corrie Decker,Elisabeth McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107103696

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The Idea of Development in Africa by Corrie Decker,Elisabeth McMahon Pdf

An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.

Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484

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African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone Pdf

Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

Author : Ericka A. Albaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107042087

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State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa by Ericka A. Albaugh Pdf

This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as media of instruction in elementary schools. It argues that a number of factors have combined to make multilingual education attractive: France has changed its foreign policy toward its former colonies, language NGOs are transcribing more languages, and pressure toward democracy makes African leaders look for ways to divide the opposition.

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527511897

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Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub-Saharan Africa by Poonam Bala Pdf

This volume examines the various modalities of imperial engagements with the colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa. Articulated through race, gender and medicine, these modalities also became colonial sites of desire addressing colonial anxieties ensuing from concerted engagements. Focussing on colonial India, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, this volume brings together essays from eminent scholars to examine the dynamics of colonial engagements and their implications in understanding their role in the dominant discourses of the empire. Given its transnational perspective in addressing colonial India and Sub-Saharan Africa, the book will appeal to historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, and to scholars and students in colonial studies, cultural studies, history of medicine and world history.

Author : Deborah Neill
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804781053

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Networks in Tropical Medicine by Deborah Neill Pdf

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book shows that this transnational collaboration in a context of European colonialism, scientific discovery, and internationalism shaped the character of the new medical specialty. Even in an era of intense competition among European states, practitioners of tropical medicine created a transnational scientific community through which they influenced each other and the health care that was introduced to the tropical world. One of the most important developments in the shaping of tropical medicine as a specialty was the major sleeping sickness epidemic that spread across sub-Saharan Africa at the turn of the century. The book describes how scientists and doctors collaborated across borders to control, contain, and find a treatment for the disease. It demonstrates that these medical specialists' shared notions of "Europeanness," rooted in common beliefs about scientific, technological, and racial superiority, led them to establish a colonial medical practice in Africa that sometimes oppressed the same people it was created to help.

Author : Prem Poddar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748650972

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Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires by Prem Poddar Pdf

The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G

Author : Vincent Khapoya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317343585

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The African Experience by Vincent Khapoya Pdf

This book examines the role that Africa has played on the world stage, the African Union, the African leaders' efforts to take care of their own problems and lessen their dependence on the United States and European countries.

Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425261

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Colonialism in Global Perspective by Kris Manjapra Pdf

A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015026238652

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The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia (19 v.) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Damiano Matasci,Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,Hugo Gonçalves Dores
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030278014

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Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Damiano Matasci,Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,Hugo Gonçalves Dores Pdf

This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequences in colonial and postcolonial moments. Since the late nineteenth century, the “educability” of the native was the subject of several debates and experiments: numerous voices, arguments, and agendas emerged, involving multiple institutions and experts, governmental and non-governmental, religious and laic, operating from the corridors of international organizations to the towns and rural villages of Africa. This plurality of expressions of political, social, cultural, and economic imagination of education and development is at the core of this collective work.

Author : George Rosen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421416014

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A History of Public Health by George Rosen Pdf

For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.

Author : Emmanuel Akyeampong,Robert H. Bates,Nathan Nunn,James Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107041158

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Africa's Development in Historical Perspective by Emmanuel Akyeampong,Robert H. Bates,Nathan Nunn,James Robinson Pdf

Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.

Author : Philippa Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135945015

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Prostitution, Race and Politics by Philippa Levine Pdf

In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the contagious diseases ordinances that the British government passed. By studying how British authorities enforced these laws in four colonial sites between the 1860s and the end of the First World War, Philippa Levine reveals how myths and prejudices about the sexual practices of colonized peoples not only had a direct and often punishing effect on how the laws operated, but how they also further justified the distinction between the colonizer and the colonized.

Author : Rita Headrick,Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : African Studies Association
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015048931839

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Colonialism, Health and Illness in French Equatorial Africa, 1885-1935 by Rita Headrick,Daniel R. Headrick Pdf