Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India

by David Arnold

Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poison and pollution to colonial governance, scientific authority and public anxiety in India between the 1830s and 1950s. Against the background of India's 'poison culture' and periodic 'poison panics', David Arnold considers why many familiar substances came to be regarded under colonialism as dangerous poisons. As well as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107126975
• ISBN13: 9781107126978
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"