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Languages : en
Pages : 460
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The Quinologist
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Pages : 460
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Pages : 460
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Quinine's Remains
Author: Townsend Middleton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520399129
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of India’s Darjeeling Hills, Quinine’s Remains chronicles the history and aftermaths of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria’s only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations—and the roughly fifty thousand people who call them home—remain. Their futures, however, are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but the plantation community, led by strident trade unions, has successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine’s remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the site of urgent efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520399129
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of India’s Darjeeling Hills, Quinine’s Remains chronicles the history and aftermaths of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria’s only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations—and the roughly fifty thousand people who call them home—remain. Their futures, however, are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but the plantation community, led by strident trade unions, has successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine’s remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the site of urgent efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Pages : 910
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The Indian Empire
Author: William Wilson Hunter
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Pharmacist
Author: Albert E. Ebert
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385236622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385236622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Encyclopædia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Anglo-American Encyclopedia
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Pages : 512
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Pages : 512
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Standing Information Regarding the Official Administration of the Madras Presidency in Each Department in Illustration of the Yearly Administration Reports Prepared Under the Orders of Goverment by C. D. Maclean
Author: Charles Donald Maclean
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Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Pages : 594
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