Bücher von Rod (University of Kent Edmond

An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missionaries were thought exposed to the risk of infection, which might be carried back to Britain.

This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914. It draws on history, literature, art history, and anthropology in its study of different, often conflicting, colonial discourses of the Pacific.