imperial disease

He served with distinction in both the South African War and the Great War, and during the last eight years he was Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, whose concern is with “Imperial diseases,” as he called them, as well as the more domestic.

...in July 1807 we may discern the growth of a singular British imperial disease: Russophobia.

Despite these and other strengths, however, the Iroquois became weakened throughout the seventeenth and into the early eighteenth centuries as they faced several ordeals: “first came massive depopulation from imperial diseases; next, a slide into economic dependence on trade with Europeans; then ensnarement in the imperial struggles of powerful French and English colonial neighbors; finally, direct incursions on Iroquois territory and sovereignty” (p. 2).