[PDF] Medical Missionaries And Colonial Knowledge In West Africa And Europe 1885 1914 eBook

Author : Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 3031271289

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This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of religious purity, scientific health and colonial cleanliness came together in the making of hygiene during the age of High Imperialism. The heyday of evangelical medical missions abroad coincided with the emergence of tropical medicine as a scientific discipline during what became known as the Scramble for Africa. This book reveals that these projects were intertwined and that hygiene played an important role in all three of them. While most historians have examined modern hygiene as a European, bourgeois and scientific phenomenon, the author highlights both the colonial and the religious fabric of hygiene, which continues to shape our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day.

Author : Corrie Decker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110710369X

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An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.

Author : John Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0192802488

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Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

Author : Prem Poddar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748650970

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The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G

Author : Ericka A. Albaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139916777

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How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.

Author : Vincent Khapoya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317343581

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This book examines the role that Africa has played on the world stage, the African Union, the African leaders' efforts to take care of their own problems and lessen their dependence on the United States and European countries.

Author : Damiano Matasci
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030278018

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This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequences in colonial and postcolonial moments. Since the late nineteenth century, the “educability” of the native was the subject of several debates and experiments: numerous voices, arguments, and agendas emerged, involving multiple institutions and experts, governmental and non-governmental, religious and laic, operating from the corridors of international organizations to the towns and rural villages of Africa. This plurality of expressions of political, social, cultural, and economic imagination of education and development is at the core of this collective work.

Author : Emmanuel Akyeampong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107041155

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Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.

Author : David Cantor
Publisher : Social Histories of Medicine
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526151087

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Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108425267

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A provocative, breath-taking, and concise relational history of colonialism over the past 500 years, from the dawn of the New World to the twenty-first century.