Quinine's Remains: Empire's Medicine and the Life Thereafter

by Townsend Middleton

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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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520399129
• ISBN13: 9780520399129
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"