"A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs d…
This book explores the impact of colonialism on Africans, the politics of buying and selling primates, and the popularization of biological racism. The author explores these ideas through the life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) by examining the commercial networks that brought the …
"Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R.L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution. Garner was a self-taught…
The womanly art of boxing -- Jiu-jitsu, gender, and the yellow peril -- Self-defense and claiming public space -- Self-defense in the era of suffrage and the new woman -- Self-defense in the domestic sphere "The surprising roots of the self-defense movement and the history of w…