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All these folk are saying, ‘It was plague. We’ve had the plague here’. You’d almost think they expected to be given medals for it. But what does that mean — ‘plague’? Just life, no more than that.1
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Mills, J.H. (2000). Conclusion: Knowledge, Power and Agency. In: Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286047_8
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