When Disease Came to This Country - Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America

"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"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. When scarlet fever came to this country; 3. Colonial motifs and medicine; 4. The gold rush and after; 5. Infrastructures of extraction, sanitation, and care; 6. Race, gender, and control; 7. Experiences of influenza; 8. Colonial ecologies; 9. A smouldering fire; 10. Epilogue and conclusions; Appendix: Cause of death database.

About the author

Liza Piper is Professor of History at the University of Alberta whose previous work includes The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada (2009).

Product details

• Authors: Liza Piper, Liza (University of Alberta) Piper, Piper Liza
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009320870
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0932087-0
• No. of pages: 365
• Series: Global Health Histories
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), c 1800 to c 1900, History of Medicine, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of the Americas