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Deborah J. Neill Associate Professor, Department of History, York University |
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Web Page: | https://www.yorku.ca |
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Bio: I am a Modern European Historian, specializing in European colonialism and the history of colonial medicine and humanitarianism. Past research has included explorations of the role of transnational ties between tropical medicine specialists in Africa and Europe (early 20th century) and the history of food and nutrition in France and its colonies. My current project explores the expansion of trade in West Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with special attention paid to the Holt family of Liverpool and their connections to the transnational world of "legitimate trade" (including their contacts among African, French and German traders). In addition I am interested in John Holt's relationship to humanitarian campaigns launched by transnational European activists against the trade in alcohol and weapons in this period. |