HIST 3D Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Microorganism, John Rupert Firth
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Malaria, yellow fever disease can be transmitted by insects. De ciencies or excess of some particular type of biochemical substance: cure by supplying the substance to the patient, increased globalization. Imperialism: more developed countries got into the business trying to extend control over colonial empire. Trade and imperialism: 1870s-1910s, technological facilitators. Weapon: re arms (repeating guns: maxim: early versions of machine guns. Public health: outbreak would only a ect the natives. Steam boats: huge amount of cargo, raw goods came out of the colony and nished goods came back to the colony, social push. Greatest belief in the absolute and unchallenged cultural superiority of europe. Missionary activities: civilize and convert, economic pull. A great belief in the idea that colony were good for the economic status of the mother countries: the game of empire. Gobble up more part of the rest of the world than your rivals. Unparalleled context for european: encounter with disease.
