‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa

Smallpox in Africa during Colonial Rule

The history of smallpox in Africa during colonial rule is a relatively neglected subject. This is not because of ignorance or obscurity but in some ways just the opposite: it is thought that there is little more to be learned about it. To be sure, vaccination campaigns during colonial rule were one of the earliest and most extensive public health programmes that Europeans bragged about as evide...

'Combating' tropical diseases in the German colonial press.

This article shows how much certain German language newspapers were a vehicule for reporting to the lay public on 'combating' tropical diseases. Through the press, immigrants and their descendents in Brazil were informed not only about the diseases which afflicted German colonists in Africa, but also about measures concerning sanitation, prophylaxis and experiments with tropical medicine, etc. ...

Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences

This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence ...

Variolation, Vaccination and Popular Resistance in Early Colonial South India

The campaigns to prevent smallpox in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are commonly understood as the first attempts of large-scale state-sponsored medical intervention in society as such. 1 Before the discovery of the cowpox vaccine inoculation with variolous matterÐknown as variolationÐwas the most widespread preventive against the disease. This practice was well established in parts of...

Lechler ; Lachlan McNamee : Decentralized Despotism ? Indirect Colonial Rule