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Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and São Paulo, and the vaccine had been used as far afield as the British and Spanish Caribbean and other European colonies. 9 New contributions to yellow fever research by the Italian bacteriologist Giuseppe Sanarelli heightened the competition to discover the real germ and the right cure. Sanarelli was invited to run the Institute for Experimental Hygiene, inaugurated in
–35. 62 Hochschild, Strangers , p. 147. For background, see Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism (New York, 2012). 63 Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean exchanges: slavery and the transformation of English society, 1640–1700 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2007), pp. 174, 216, at p. 174. For a penetrating account of the emerging stereotypes of African women, see Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring women
, however, when compared to other nations and nationalities. Notwithstanding Pepys’s well-known interest in Spanish cultural production, terms relating to the other great power in western Europe occur just 153 times in total. Closer to home, various cognate terms for Scotland and the Scottish appear just 85 times; the equivalent Irish terms, 104; whilst the Welsh elicited comment on a mere 17 occasions. Similarly, the American colonies, bar passing comments on naval actions in the Caribbean, barely registered at all
speculations of these authors’. 12 He had in mind savages to be found in New Zealand, the Caribbean and the Southern Pacific, but then detected among the tribes of India the same characteristics of cruelty, sensuality, bigotry, depravity and filth. 13 Urban mythology The concern with degeneration and filth signalled in these writings was something of a departure in representations of
population of 6.6 million included more than one in six people born outside the UK, including 634,000 from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. 6 This growing international community was of interest to many child psychiatrists. Furthermore, increasing numbers of doctors from the New Commonwealth were also immigrating and this encouraged debate within the medical community itself. Aubrey
/06/2011 10:15 Page 10 10 History, historians and development policy (in Latin America) and/or the importation of slaves (the southern states of North America, Central America and the Caribbean islands and the northern region of South America), in the process institutionalizing laws and social relations consolidating high inequality and elite dominance; where profits could be optimally gained by other means – that is, where the climate supported different kinds of crops or industries requiring different kinds of skilled labour (in the northern states of North America
authors of another recent work on orality, 10 Introduction who range all the way from Homer to African-American rap artists, invite their reader to step ‘through the medium of print’ into the ‘oral world’ (the singular is significant) of ‘Homer, the rapper, the orators of Madagascar and Samoa, the story-tellers of Africa and the Caribbean and many, many more’.46 The notion that all these cultures constitute a single ‘oral world’ is itself troublesome. So is the suggestion that we can gain direct entry to such a world through literary and archival sources. In fact, the