In the 1890s, the Pasteur Institute established a network of laboratories that stretched across France's empire, from Indochina to West Africa. Quickly, researchers at these laboratories became central to France's colonial project, helping officials monopolize industries, develo…
Pasteur's Empire shows how the scientific prestige of the Pasteur Institute came to depend on its colonial laboratories, and how, conversely, the institutes themselves became central to colonial politics. This book argues that decisions as small as the isolation of a particular …
Why did 'microbe hunters' at the Pasteur Institute become the most important health experts in the French empire in the early twentieth century? 'Pasteur's Empire' illustrates how French microbiologists transformed life in the colonies in the name of humanitarian public health, …