Health and welfare of European seamen: Colonial Indian port cities in the long nineteenth century

Thesis

This thesis examines the health, welfare and sanitary regulation of the European seamen in the British naval and merchant fleet in the nineteenth century. The aim, in this study, is twofold. First, to see how and to what extent maritime medicine helped shape the understanding of health and hygiene in the tropics. The agency of European troops and military surgeons in shaping public health in British India has generated a field of historical enquiry, but little is known about the impact of Eur...

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Authors: Dutta, M

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: British Empire; hygiene; health; maritime history; sanitation; seamen; colonialism
• Subjects: History, Modern; Port cities; Indian Ocean; Sailors; Great Britain--Colonies