Quinine's remains empire's medicine and the life thereafter

"What happens to the colonized after colonial industries leave? Set in the cinchona plantations of India's Darjeeling Hills, Quinine's Remains chronicles the history and aftermath of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria's only remedy until the twentieth-cent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Middleton, Townsend, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2024]
Edición:1st edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009840138106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. life in the remains
  • Colonial becomings : the makings of a world-historical substance
  • After quinine : a politics of remaining
  • Until Gorkhaland agitation in the remains
  • Beyond ruin : the arts of becoming-after
  • Epilogue. an ethics for the time-being.