Book contents
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Global Health Histories
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Place Names
- Abbreviations
- 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
- Select Bibliography
- Index
8 - Colonial Ecologies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
Book contents
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Global Health Histories
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Place Names
- Abbreviations
- 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
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The 1928 epidemic came a decade after the 1918–19 influenza pandemic. Using the rich epidemiological, biological, and historical evidence available from the 1918–19 pandemic, this chapter examines the relationship between these two episodes. What happened along the Mackenzie River in 1928 offers unique insight into the global reverberations of the appearance of a novel influenza virus ten years previously. This chapter also explores the effects of colonial power relations on the course of the epidemic and the ways in which this epidemic reinforced particular interpretations of ‘race’ and ‘racial’ difference in northern North America.
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- When Disease Came to This CountryEpidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America, pp. 225 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023