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June 9, 2020June 10, 2020

Hugh Cagle on Nature, Disease, and ‘Assembling the Tropics’ in the Portuguese Empire

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Our next segment of 'Global Histories of Health, Medicine & Disease in the Early Modern World' is live: @classic__chase speaks with Prof. Hugh Cagle about the creation of the idea of the ‘tropics’, focusing on knowledge about nature, medicine & disease in the Portuguese empire during the late medieval & early modern periods.

Our next segment of 'Global Histories of Health, Medicine & Disease in the Early Modern World' is live: @classic__chase speaks with Prof. Nükhet Varlık about her research on plague, public health, & healing in the Ottoman Empire - including the importance of considering the Ottoman experience in the broader history of plague, the links between Ottoman imperial expansion & the spread of plague, & practices of healing in early modern Ottoman society.

On our next segment in ‘Global Histories of Health, Medicine & Disease in the Early Modern World‘, @classic__chase interviews Dr. Sebestian Kroupa over skype about his research on the Bohemian Jesuit pharmacist Georg Joseph Kamel, who was stationed in the #Philippines at the end of the 17th c. & the start of the 18th.

Welcome to GHP's 6th episode, which is also the 1st segment of our new mini-series, ‘Global Histories of Health, Medicine, & Disease in the Early Modern World’. In this episode, classic__chase speaks with Dr. Monica H. Green, Independent Scholar & an elected Fellow of The Medieval Academy of America, about the Black Death & the global history of disease.

Welcome to episode 5, in which @classic__chase interviews Dr. Bronwen Everill, 1973 Lecturer in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge @caiuscollege, about abolition, empire, & settler society in Sierra Leone & Liberia in the late 18th & 19th c.

Welcome to the GHP's 4th episode. In this segment, we hear from Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge @cambridgeuniversity and a Fellow and College Lecturer in History at Gonville & Caius College @caiuscollege.

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