Marc H Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 120517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc H Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc H |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Many Minds of Sir Halford J. Mackinder
While doing research in Rhodes House Library I cam across a magnificently detailed description of parts of Kikuyuland in 1899 in the travel notebooks of Sir Halford John Mackinder. In this work Mackinder recounted his expedition's successful effort to be the first recorded group to ascend Mount Kenya. He is also one of the few travelers to leave a detailed account of this area for the nineteenth century. Furthermore, I discovered he had compiled …
The 1920s Anti-Yaws Campaigns and Colonial Medical Policy in Kenya
The 1920s yaws eradication campaigns in Kenya provide an opportunity to examine several different aspects of health and healing during the colonial era.1 First, the campaigns represent the initial efforts by the colonial regime to work on an endemic disease which affected virtually only rural Africans. Second, they offer an opportunity to understand the political and economic constraints under which colonial medical policy was formed, as well as …
The Social History of Africa in the Future
When I was first asked to write this paper, I was instructed that the whole field of social history was open to my purview and that my efforts should be directed to future accomplishments and not past glories. My first impulse was to wander over to the library and try to determine in fact what social history was in order to bring some boundaries to my paper. After looking through several of the standard reference works on the social sciences and …
Disease in African, History
Smallpox in Kenya, 1880–1920
The 1920s Anti-Yaws Campaigns and Colonial Medical Policy in Kenya
The 1920s yaws eradication campaigns in Kenya provide an opportunity to examine several different aspects of health and healing during the colonial era.1 First, the campaigns represent the initial efforts by the colonial regime to work on an endemic disease which affected virtually only rural Africans. Second, they offer an opportunity to understand the political and economic constraints under which colonial medical policy was formed, as well as …
The Social History of Africa in the Future
When I was first asked to write this paper, I was instructed that the whole field of social history was open to my purview and that my efforts should be directed to future accomplishments and not past glories. My first impulse was to wander over to the library and try to determine in fact what social history was in order to bring some boundaries to my paper. After looking through several of the standard reference works on the social sciences and …
Smallpox in Kenya, 1880–1920
Disease in African, History
The Many Minds of Sir Halford J. Mackinder
While doing research in Rhodes House Library I cam across a magnificently detailed description of parts of Kikuyuland in 1899 in the travel notebooks of Sir Halford John Mackinder. In this work Mackinder recounted his expedition's successful effort to be the first recorded group to ascend Mount Kenya. He is also one of the few travelers to leave a detailed account of this area for the nineteenth century. Furthermore, I discovered he had compiled …
The 1920s Anti-Yaws Campaigns and Colonial Medical Policy in Kenya
The 1920s yaws eradication campaigns in Kenya provide an opportunity to examine several different aspects of health and healing during the colonial era.1 First, the campaigns represent the initial efforts by the colonial regime to work on an endemic disease which affected virtually only rural Africans. Second, they offer an opportunity to understand the political and economic constraints under which colonial medical policy was formed, as well as …
The Social History of Africa in the Future
When I was first asked to write this paper, I was instructed that the whole field of social history was open to my purview and that my efforts should be directed to future accomplishments and not past glories. My first impulse was to wander over to the library and try to determine in fact what social history was in order to bring some boundaries to my paper. After looking through several of the standard reference works on the social sciences and …
Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works)