Overview
- Explores how two different colonial systems tried to control infectious disease in the border region between Zimbabwe and Mozambique
- Draws on archival sources from both British and Portuguese colonial documents, as well as oral interviews conducted in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
- Uses a cross-disciplinary approach and appeals to scholars from history, public health, epidemiology, ethnography, environmental and medical humanities, as well as the study of Africa during the colonial period
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Life and Health Before the Border
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Life and Health with the Border
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The Border and Public Health
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About this book
This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact of colonial public health measures such as medical examinations/inspections, vaccinations, and border surveillance on African villagers in this borderland. The book asks whether the conjunction of a particular colonized society, a distinctive kind of colonialism, and a particular territorial border generated reluctance to embrace public health because of certain colonial circumstances which impeded the acceptance of therapeutic alternatives that were embraced by colonized people elsewhere. It asks historians to look elsewhere for similar kinds of histories involving racialized application of public health policies in colonial borderlands.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Francis Dube is Associate Professor of History at Morgan State University, USA. He specializes in the history of the environment and health in Southern Africa. Before joining Morgan State University, he was Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940
Book Subtitle: African Experiences in a Contested Space
Authors: Francis Dube
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47535-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47534-5Published: 30 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47537-6Published: 30 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47535-2Published: 29 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Sub-Saharan Africa, History of Medicine, Imperialism and Colonialism, Migration