Imperial contagions : medicine, hygiene, and cultures of planning in Asia /
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Hong Kong University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Hong Kong : |
Publication Dates: | [2013] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index. |
ISBN: |
9789888139521 : 9888139525 |
Index Number: | RA525 |
CLC: | R199.3-09 |
Call Number: | R199.3-09/I344 |
Contents: | Combating nuisance : sanitation, regulation, and the politics of property in colonial Hong Kong / Cecilia Chu -- 'Tropicalizing' planning : sanitation, housing, and technologies of improvement in colonial Singapore, 1907-1942 / Jiat-Hwee Chang -- Colonial anxiety counted : plague and census in Bombay and Calcutta, 1901 / Richard Harris and Robert Lewis -- "Beyond risk of contagion" : childhood, hill stations, and the planning of British and French colonial cities / David M. Pomfret -- Planning social hygiene : from contamination to contagion in interwar India / Stephen Legg -- Matshed labora |