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The last two decades in nineteenth-century West Africa witnessed a two-fold movement, namely the territorial expansion of French colonial empire and the first attempts to extend biomedicine through mass vaccination to control smallpox epidemics. This study provides both a deep h…

The terrorist events of Fall 2001, forced Americans to examine their vulnerability to terrorism. Agencies began reviewing and devising plans for preparation and response to potential bioterrorist threats. A policy response to smallpox, a serious bioterrorist agent was the nation…

This dissertation examines the convergence of Atlantic World medicine and disease with the 1721 smallpox epidemic in Boston and controversy that arose over the practice of inoculation. In Boston, Puritan beliefs intersected with the growing importance of theoretical medical trai…

This work looks at the effect of institutions on development. It draws on fieldwork in a case study country, Sierra Leone. Problems of underdevelopment in Sierra Leone have been linked to institutional failures. This thesis examines that argument, both in relation to agrarian ch…