Toxic Histories - Poison and Pollution in Modern India

Informationen zum Autor David Arnold is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick, and previously taught at the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Lancaster, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. A founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, he has been a visiting professor in Chicago and Zurich, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His published work includes Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India; Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India; Gandhi; The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856, and Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity. Klappentext An analysis of the challenge that India's poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology's creation of a public role for science. Zusammenfassung David Arnold combines social! medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poisons and pollution (and attempts to control them) to public anxiety! colonial governance and the role of scientific authority and agency in India between the 1830s and 1950s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: poison traces; 1. The social life of poisons; 2. The imperial pharmakon; 3. Panics and scares; 4. Toxic evidence; 5. Intimate histories; 6. Embracing toxicity; 7. Polluted places, poisoned lives; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Arnold, David (University of Warwick) Arnold, David John Arnold
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2016
• EAN: 9781107126978
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12697-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Science in History; Science in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, Pollution & threats to the environment, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Pollution and threats to the environment, HISTORY / Asia / South / India