The “Cholera Cloud” in the Nineteenth-Century “British World”: History of an Object-without-an-Essence (2012)
Mukharji, Projit Bihari (Author)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 86, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 303-332
The cholera cloud is one of the most persistent presences in the archives of nineteenth-century cholera in the British World. Yet it has seldom received anything more than a passing acknowledgment from historians of cholera. Tracing the history of the cholera cloud as an object promises to open up a new dimension of the historically contingent experience of cholera, as well as make a significant contribution to the emergent literature on thing theory. By conceptualizing the cholera cloud as an object-without-an-essence, this article demonstrates how global cholera pandemics in the nineteenth century produced globalized objects in which a near-universal recognizability and an utterly context-specific set of meanings, visions, and realities could ironically cohabit.
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