{"product_id":"9781137270986","title":"Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies: Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780-1868","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies: Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780-1868\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWald, E.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the  nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related  problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance  of the East India Company. These concerns revolved around the European soldiery  in India – the costly, but often unruly, 'thin white line' of colonial rule.  This book examines the colonial state's approach to these vice-driven health  risks. In doing so it throws new light on the emergence of social and imperial  mindsets and on the empire, fuelled by fear of the lower orders, sexual  deviation, disease and mutiny. An exploration of these mindsets reveals a  lesser-explored fact of rule – the fractured nature of the Company state.  Further, it shows how the measures employed by the state to deal with these  vice-driven health problems had wide-ranging consequences not simply for the  army itself but for India and the empire more broadly. By refocusing our  attention on to the military core of the colonial state, Wald demonstrates the  ways in which army decision-making stretched beyond the cantonment boundary to  help define the state's engagement with and understanding of Indian society. \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2014-03-26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137270986\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/9781137270993\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 273\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47676713009292,"sku":"9781137270986","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137270986.jpg?v=1776550559","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137270986","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}