Echenberg, Myron. Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Sénégalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960
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Angela N H Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and Londa Schiebinger (eds), Feminism in twentieth-century science, technology, and medicine, Women and Culture in Society, University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. xii, 264, US$65.00 (hardback 0-226-12023-6), US$20.00 (paperback 0-226-12024-4). Myron Echenberg, Black death, white medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies
سال: 1993
ISSN: 2150-5802,0041-5715
DOI: 10.5070/f7213016733