Abstract
This essay is a review of Anjuli Raza Kolb’s recent book Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020 (Chicago, 2020): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo63099943.html. It also serves as a discussion of cholera, yellow fever, imperialism, and the Caribbean, especially Haiti.
Publisher’s Note: A correction article relating to this paper has been published and can be found at https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.518/.