A space for conflict : the scab acts of the Cape Colony, circa 1874-1911

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2011

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University of Cape Town

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Sheep farmers who protested against the promulgation of anti-scab legislation presented their opinions of the disease in a slew of letters to the press and in testimonies before various scab commissions. Although the farmers' beliefs about scab were heterogeneous, they contained elements of an environmental theory of disease.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 202-217).

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