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Middleton, Townsend, author.

Title Quinine's remains : empire's medicine and the life thereafter / Townsend Middleton.

Publication Info.	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
	Š2024

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Description	1 online resource
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue. life in the remains -- Colonial becomings : the makings of a world-historical substance -- After quinine : a politics of remaining -- Until Gorkhaland agitation in the remains -- Beyond ruin : the arts of becoming-after -- Epilogue. an ethics for the time-being.
Summary	"What happens to the colonized after colonial industries leave? Set in the cinchona plantations of India's Darjeeling Hills, Quinine's Remains chronicles the history and aftermath of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria's only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the expansion of the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations-and the fifty thousand people who call them home-remain, and their futures are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but local communities, led by strident trade unions, have successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine's remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the birthplace of urgent political efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject	Quinine industry -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- History -- 21st century.
	Quinine -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- History -- 21st century.
	Cinchona -- Political aspects -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- History -- 21st century.
	Quinine -- Political aspects -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- History -- 21st century.
	Quinine -- Industrie -- Inde -- Darjeeling (District) -- Histoire -- 21e sičcle.
	Quinine -- Inde -- Darjeeling (District) -- Histoire -- 21e sičcle.
	Quinquina (Plante) -- Aspect politique -- Inde -- Darjeeling (District) -- Histoire -- 21e sičcle.
	Quinine -- Aspect politique -- Inde -- Darjeeling (District) -- Histoire -- 21e sičcle.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Other Form:	Print version: Middleton, Townsend. Quinine's remains Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520399129 (DLC) 2023041530
ISBN	9780520399136 (ebook)
	0520399137
	9780520399129 (paperback)