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  • MALARIA IN COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA
    SHEILA ZURBRIGG
    This book highlights the role of acute hunger in malaria lethality in colonial South Asia and investigates how this understanding came to be lost in modern medical, epidemic, and historiographic thought. Using the case studies of colonial Punjab, Sri Lanka, and Bengal, it traces the loss of fundamental concepts and language of hunger in the inter-war period with the reductive a...

    $1,360.00

  • EPIDEMIC MALARIA AND HUNGER IN COLONIAL PUNJAB
    SHEILA ZURBRIGG
    This book documents the primary role of acute hunger (semi- and frank starvation) in the ‘fulminant’ malaria epidemics that repeatedly afflicted the northwest plains of British India through the first half of colonial rule. Using Punjab vital registration data and regression analysis it also tracks the marked decline in annual malaria mortality after 1908 with the control of fa...

    $1,200.00