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Papers by Harold Cook

Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 14, 2017

Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2017

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 3, 2006

The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple i... more The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, colonial interests, governments and policies, international interventions, and by a wide range of health agents and intermediaries. Their findings call into question many of the claims based on medicalization and biopolitics that treat change as a process of rupture. While governments, both colonial and national, instituted policies that affected large numbers of people, much health care remained rooted in a more interactive and locally-mediated experience, in which tradition, adaptation and hybridization is as important as innovation and conflict. "Semi-subaltern" Western-trained doctors and varied traditional healers, many of them women, were among the cultural brokers involved in the building of healthcare systems, and helped circulate mixed practices and ideas about medicine and health even as they found their place in new professional and social hierarchies in an era of globalization.

The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age

Matters of Exchange, 2007

Kronos: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis, 2015

In 1690, on the orders of Simon van der Stel, officials of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (... more In 1690, on the orders of Simon van der Stel, officials of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) interviewed one Nicolao Almede, a ‘free black man of Mozambique’ who had recently arrived at the Cape as a sailor aboard the English ship John and Mary. Almede informed his interlocutors about the country inland from the coast between Mozambique and Delagoa Bay (now Maputo Bay), into which he had previously ventured as a merchant. Although he does not mention the legendary name of Monomotapa, he does offer early descriptions of the Changamire dynasty, as well as the animals and people of the region, including its fabulous wealth. Some of the place names he mentioned are well known, while others cannot now be traced, perhaps because he was using indigenous rather than Portuguese names. The record of the interview concludes with Almede’s description of mermaids, and the fact that their teeth could be had in the market at Mozambique. Together with producing a transcription and translat...

Historian, 2017

In this new study, the author examines the multiracial communities of Anglo-Africans, Eurafricans... more In this new study, the author examines the multiracial communities of Anglo-Africans, Eurafricans, and Euro-Africans of Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia during colonial rule. He challenges dominant understandings of African history, pushing the field beyond anticolonial movements and national boundaries. Christopher Lee argues that multiracial groups were marginalized not only by a British order obsessed with "nativism" and the "native question" but also by historians. He takes on the field, suggesting that this disregard emerges not only from discomfort with multiracial imperial allegiances but also from the entrenchment of colonial nativism in scholarship. The author's focus on diverse multiracial communities thus forces readers to rethink definitions of "African history" and the new forms of peoplehood and political imagination that emerged during colonial rule in the region of the British Central Africa Federation. Lee argues that multiracial individuals and communities used kinship and "genealogical imagination" to negotiate a world defined by race, by ideas of natives and nonnatives.

BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 2014

Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 2012

Yale University Press eBooks, Apr 28, 2007

Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 23, 2004

Nature, Apr 1, 2008

History is often told from a national perspective, but big ideas usually have cross-border entang... more History is often told from a national perspective, but big ideas usually have cross-border entanglements. Lisa Jardine's carefully crafted and highly readable book describes how people and concepts from the Netherlands percolated English high culture in the seventeenth century, influencing early science. Going Dutch may unsettle those raised on the parochial view of the English as driving their own independent destiny. Historian Jardine begins with the Dutch invasion of England known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. No blood was shed, yet England was subjected to a massive coup d' etat at the point of a foreign prince's sword. The head of the Dutch army, Prince William of Orange (also the nephew of England's King James II), gathered a fleet of more than 500 ships to convey his battle-hardened troops across the water, an operation the size of which was not repeated until D-Day in 1944. Marching on London, the prince was greeted by cheering crowds. Meanwhile, James II's army withdrew rather than offering battle. A cabal of Protestant lords provided political cover by inviting William to take over the English government. The imprisoned James II was allowed to escape to France, while a hastily convened Parliament pronounced William and his wife Mary (daughter of James II) as joint sovereigns, giving legitimacy to the new regime. But William's Dutch guard garrisoned an occupied London for years afterwards, just to make sure. Why was this quiet coup seen as importing a king rather than suffering a conquest? Jardine argues that Dutch victory was subverted by English opportunism. By 'going Dutch' and adopting the commercial and administrative methods of their new masters, the English quickly gained the upper hand, replacing the Netherlands as the major international power.

Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 18, 2012

This article encourages discussion of the multiplicity of sometimes rapidly changing practices th... more This article encourages discussion of the multiplicity of sometimes rapidly changing practices that have always surrounded the maintenance of health and the treatment of illness. It points to one of the ways in which some medical activities in Western Europe were channelled in ways unlike most other regions of the world: the legal form of a ‘corporation’ has grown rapidly in the past millennium, making many informal social institutions into self-conscious and stable bodies. This article shows the ‘medicalization’ of life as an indication of the power of collective expertise in the service of the state. Medicalization was possible due to the expansion and proliferation of corporate bodies and professional organizations, which continued to protect the interests of their members. Medical activities organized around corporate bodies have shaped the recruitment and expenditure of effort and resources so as give rise to a kind of official medicine that has furthered the development of political economies and populations.

Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 14, 2017

Yale University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2017

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 3, 2006

The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple i... more The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, colonial interests, governments and policies, international interventions, and by a wide range of health agents and intermediaries. Their findings call into question many of the claims based on medicalization and biopolitics that treat change as a process of rupture. While governments, both colonial and national, instituted policies that affected large numbers of people, much health care remained rooted in a more interactive and locally-mediated experience, in which tradition, adaptation and hybridization is as important as innovation and conflict. "Semi-subaltern" Western-trained doctors and varied traditional healers, many of them women, were among the cultural brokers involved in the building of healthcare systems, and helped circulate mixed practices and ideas about medicine and health even as they found their place in new professional and social hierarchies in an era of globalization.

The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age

Matters of Exchange, 2007

Kronos: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis, 2015

In 1690, on the orders of Simon van der Stel, officials of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (... more In 1690, on the orders of Simon van der Stel, officials of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) interviewed one Nicolao Almede, a ‘free black man of Mozambique’ who had recently arrived at the Cape as a sailor aboard the English ship John and Mary. Almede informed his interlocutors about the country inland from the coast between Mozambique and Delagoa Bay (now Maputo Bay), into which he had previously ventured as a merchant. Although he does not mention the legendary name of Monomotapa, he does offer early descriptions of the Changamire dynasty, as well as the animals and people of the region, including its fabulous wealth. Some of the place names he mentioned are well known, while others cannot now be traced, perhaps because he was using indigenous rather than Portuguese names. The record of the interview concludes with Almede’s description of mermaids, and the fact that their teeth could be had in the market at Mozambique. Together with producing a transcription and translat...

Historian, 2017

In this new study, the author examines the multiracial communities of Anglo-Africans, Eurafricans... more In this new study, the author examines the multiracial communities of Anglo-Africans, Eurafricans, and Euro-Africans of Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia during colonial rule. He challenges dominant understandings of African history, pushing the field beyond anticolonial movements and national boundaries. Christopher Lee argues that multiracial groups were marginalized not only by a British order obsessed with "nativism" and the "native question" but also by historians. He takes on the field, suggesting that this disregard emerges not only from discomfort with multiracial imperial allegiances but also from the entrenchment of colonial nativism in scholarship. The author's focus on diverse multiracial communities thus forces readers to rethink definitions of "African history" and the new forms of peoplehood and political imagination that emerged during colonial rule in the region of the British Central Africa Federation. Lee argues that multiracial individuals and communities used kinship and "genealogical imagination" to negotiate a world defined by race, by ideas of natives and nonnatives.

BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 2014

Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 2012

Yale University Press eBooks, Apr 28, 2007

Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 23, 2004

Nature, Apr 1, 2008

History is often told from a national perspective, but big ideas usually have cross-border entang... more History is often told from a national perspective, but big ideas usually have cross-border entanglements. Lisa Jardine's carefully crafted and highly readable book describes how people and concepts from the Netherlands percolated English high culture in the seventeenth century, influencing early science. Going Dutch may unsettle those raised on the parochial view of the English as driving their own independent destiny. Historian Jardine begins with the Dutch invasion of England known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. No blood was shed, yet England was subjected to a massive coup d' etat at the point of a foreign prince's sword. The head of the Dutch army, Prince William of Orange (also the nephew of England's King James II), gathered a fleet of more than 500 ships to convey his battle-hardened troops across the water, an operation the size of which was not repeated until D-Day in 1944. Marching on London, the prince was greeted by cheering crowds. Meanwhile, James II's army withdrew rather than offering battle. A cabal of Protestant lords provided political cover by inviting William to take over the English government. The imprisoned James II was allowed to escape to France, while a hastily convened Parliament pronounced William and his wife Mary (daughter of James II) as joint sovereigns, giving legitimacy to the new regime. But William's Dutch guard garrisoned an occupied London for years afterwards, just to make sure. Why was this quiet coup seen as importing a king rather than suffering a conquest? Jardine argues that Dutch victory was subverted by English opportunism. By 'going Dutch' and adopting the commercial and administrative methods of their new masters, the English quickly gained the upper hand, replacing the Netherlands as the major international power.

Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 18, 2012

This article encourages discussion of the multiplicity of sometimes rapidly changing practices th... more This article encourages discussion of the multiplicity of sometimes rapidly changing practices that have always surrounded the maintenance of health and the treatment of illness. It points to one of the ways in which some medical activities in Western Europe were channelled in ways unlike most other regions of the world: the legal form of a ‘corporation’ has grown rapidly in the past millennium, making many informal social institutions into self-conscious and stable bodies. This article shows the ‘medicalization’ of life as an indication of the power of collective expertise in the service of the state. Medicalization was possible due to the expansion and proliferation of corporate bodies and professional organizations, which continued to protect the interests of their members. Medical activities organized around corporate bodies have shaped the recruitment and expenditure of effort and resources so as give rise to a kind of official medicine that has furthered the development of political economies and populations.

During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power... more During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurtured some of the period's greatest luminaries, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Descartes and Spinoza. Long celebrated for its religious tolerance, artistic innovation and economic modernity, the United Provinces of the Netherlands also became known for their involvement with slavery and military repression in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This Companion provides a compelling overview of the best scholarship on this much debated era, written by a wide range of experts in the field. Unique in its balanced treatment of global, political, socio-economic, literary, artistic, religious, and intellectual history, its nineteen chapters offer an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the world of the Dutch Golden Age.