Quinine's remains ebook download org to learn What happens after colonial industries have run their course after the factory closes and the fields go fallow Set in the cinchona plantations of India s Darjeeling Hills Quinine s Remains chronicles the history and aftermaths 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 British Empire Today the cinchona plantations and the roughly fifty thousand people who call them home remain Their futures however are unclear The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry but the plantation community led by strident trade unions has 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 site of urgent 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 Quinine s Remains Empire s Medicine and the Life Thereafter

Quinine's Remains: Empire's Medicine and the Life Thereafter By Townsend Middleton

0520399137

9780520399136

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