A SHORT HISTORY OF NURSING
Introduction: contextualising colonial and post-colonial nursing 1 1 Lady amateurs and gentleman professionals: emergency nursing in the Indian Mutiny 18 2 Imperial sisters in Hong Kong: disease, conflict and nursing in the British Empire, 1880–1914 41 3 The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902 60 4 ‘They do what you wish; they like you; you the good nurse!’: colonialism and Native Health nursing in New Zealand, 1900–40 84 5 Training the ‘natives’ as nurses in Australia: so what went wrong? 104 6 Working towards health, Christianity and democracy: American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico, 1900–30 126 7 The early years of nursing in the Dutch East Indies, 1895–1920 145 8 A sample of Italian Fascist colonialism: nursing and medical records in the Imperial War in Ethiopia (1935–36) 169 9 Changes in nursing and mission in post-colonial Nigeria 188 10 Two China ‘gadabouts’: guerrilla nursing with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1946–48 208 Afterword 232