TY  - BOOK
ED  - Hawkins, Sue
ED  - Sweet, Helen
AB  - From the height of colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century, through to the aftermath of the Second World War, nurses have been at the heart of colonial projects. They were ideally placed to insinuate the ‘improving’ culture of their employers into the local communities they served, and travelled in droves to far-flung parts of the globe to serve their country.   Issues of gender, class and race permeate this book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nursed are examined in detail, using case studies which draw on exciting new sources. Many of the chapters are based on first-hand accounts of nurses and reveal that not all were motivated by patriotic vigour or altruism, but went out in search of adventure. The book will be an essential read for colonial historians, as well as historians of gender and ethnicity.
DO  - 10.7228/manchester/9780719099700.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 644198
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030819053
KW  - History
KW  - History of medicine
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - medical
KW  - European history
KW  - nursing
KW  - gender
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - Second World War
KW  - class
KW  - race
KW  - colonial history
KW  - nurses
KW  - post-colonial nursing
KW  - the British Empire
KW  - the Anglo-Boer War
KW  - Indian Rebellion 1857
KW  - Maori people
KW  - Missionary
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5247505e-996e-4c4e-9258-aba430b98dcb/644198.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30683
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester
PY  - 2014-09-01
SN  - 9781526129369
TI  - Colonial Caring : A History of Colonial and Post-colonial Nursing
ER  - 
