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When disease came to this country : epidemics and colonialism in northern North America Cover Image Book Book

When disease came to this country : epidemics and colonialism in northern North America / Liza Piper.

Piper, Liza, 1978- (author.).

Summary:

"A revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern Indigenous peoples in present day Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940. Liza Piper connects the history of epidemics in northern North America to persistent health disparities arising from settler colonialism"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781009320870
  • ISBN: 1009320874
  • Physical Description: xviii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-325) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
When scarlet fever came to this country -- Colonial motifs and medicine -- The gold rush and after -- Infrastructures of extraction, sanitation, and care -- Race, gender, and control -- Experiences of influenza -- Colonial ecologies -- A smouldering fire.

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Subject: Epidemics > Yukon > History.
Epidemics > Northwest Territories > History.
Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene > Yukon.
Indigenous peoples > Health and hygiene > Northwest Territories.
Yukon > History.
Northwest Territories > History.

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Interurban Library RA 650.55 C22 Y856 2023 (Text) 26040003578545 Main Collection Volume hold On holds shelf -

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