Emily Senior: 1 book
The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834
Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the...
