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Alan Bewell is chair of the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Neil ten Kortenaar is professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Toronto. Germaine Warkentin is professor emeritus of English at the University of

Alan Bewell is chair of the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Neil ten Kortenaar is professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Toronto. Germaine Warkentin is professor emeritus of English at the University of

Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that-far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture-nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire.

Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea of disease, and the response to it, deeply affe...