| 书目名称 | Vice in the Barracks | | 副标题 | Medicine, the Milita | | 编辑 | Erica Wald | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author..Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout thenineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-relatedproblems holding serious implications for the economic and military performanceof the East India Company. These concerns revolved around the European soldieryin India – the costly, but often unruly, ‘thin white line‘ of colonial rule.This book examines the colonial state‘s approach to these vice-driven healthrisks. In doing so it throws new light on the emergence of social and imperialmindsets and on the empire, fuelled by fear of the lower orders, sexualdeviation, disease and mutiny. An exploration of these mindsets reveals alesser-explored fact of rule – the fractured nature of the Company state.Further, it shows how the measures employed by the state to deal with thesevice-driven health problems had wide-ranging consequences not simply for thearmy itself but for India and the empire more broadly. By refocusing ourattention on to the military core of the colonial state, Wald demonstrates theways in w | | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | | 关键词 | Colonial history; Medical history; India; Empire; Soldiers; Law and Order; East India Company; reform | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270993 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-44451-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-27099-3Series ISSN 2635-1633 Series E-ISSN 2635-1641 | | issn_series | 2635-1633 | | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014 |
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