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

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 1009320874 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781009320870 (Hardcover)
Physical Description: xviii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references 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.