‘It chose the beautiful ones….’

Catherine Burns

doi:10.17159/sajs.2020/7717

Abstract

‘It chose the beautiful ones….’

Highlights

This book is the work of a lifetime of reading, collecting and analysing by Howard Phillips
The letters and accounts in this collection locate South Africa in a tri-continental frontier – a region deeply imbricated in global movements of people, goods, animals, ideas, ideologies, forms of exchange and extraction
In his earlier seminal scholarly works[1,2] on the influenza epidemic in South Africa, Phillips demonstrated that the race- and class-based official responses were rooted in the approaches of neo-colonialism by health and state planners of the day

Summary

Introduction

This book is the work of a lifetime of reading, collecting and analysing by Howard Phillips. With that of 127 of her fellow South Africans, has been collected by Professor Howard Phillips of the Department of History at the University of Cape Town in In a Time of Plague: Memories of the ‘Spanish ’Flu Epidemic of 1918 in South Africa.

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Conclusion