Quinine's remains : : empire's medicine and the life thereafter / / Townsend Middleton.
"What happens to the colonized after colonial industries leave? Set in the cinchona plantations of India's Darjeeling Hills, Quinine's Remains chronicles the history and aftermath of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria's only remedy until the twentieth-cent...
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Middleton, Townsend, author. Quinine's remains : empire's medicine and the life thereafter / Townsend Middleton. 1st edition 2405 Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] ©2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue. life in the remains -- Colonial becomings : the makings of a world-historical substance -- After quinine : a politics of remaining -- Until Gorkhaland agitation in the remains -- Beyond ruin : the arts of becoming-after -- Epilogue. an ethics for the time-being. "What happens to the colonized after colonial industries leave? Set in the cinchona plantations of India's Darjeeling Hills, Quinine's Remains chronicles the history and aftermath of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria's only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the expansion of the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations-and the fifty thousand people who call them home-remain, and their futures are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but local communities, led by strident trade unions, have successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine's remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the birthplace of urgent political efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire"-- Provided by publisher. This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Quinine industry India Darjeeling (District) History 21st century. Quinine India Darjeeling (District) History 21st century. Cinchona Political aspects India Darjeeling (District) History 21st century. Quinine Political aspects India Darjeeling (District) History 21st century. 0-520-39912-9 |
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