Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgments

pp x-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Prelude: The Substance of Shadows

pp xv-xx

Introduction: The Door of the Sadiki

pp 1-14

PART ONE - Thesis: Embracing Missions

pp 15-16

1 - Staring at the Sea: Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of Tunis

pp 17-46

2 - The Threshold of Civilization:Typhus in Tunisia

pp 47-74

PART TWO - Rupture:Things Fall Apart

pp 75-76

3 - Light & Shadow: Lousy War and Fractured Peace

pp 77-110

PART THREE - Antithesis: Mosaics of Pieces

pp 111-112

4 - Alliances: “Emperor of the Mediterranean?”

pp 113-143

5 - Invisible Forces: or, Action at a Distance

pp 144-170

PART FOUR - Synthesis: Mosaics of Power

pp 171-172

6 - Reservoir Docs: Birth, Life, and Death of Infectious Disease

pp 173-207

7 - Mosaics of Power: Confronting Paris

pp 208-236

PART FIVE - Denouement

pp 237-238

8 - At Home with My Shadows: Patrie de Nomade

pp 239-254

Appendix A - Vaccines and Analyses at the Pasteur Institute of Tunis

pp 255-256

Appendix B - Personnel at the Pasteur Institute of Tunis, 1903–35

pp 257-258

Notes

pp 259-346

Bibliographic Note

pp 347-350

Bibliography

pp 351-372

Index

pp 373-384