Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's imperial missionary : typhus and Tunisia / Kim Pelis.

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2006.

xix, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-371) and index.

Prelude: the substance of shadows -- Introduction: the door of the sadiki -- Thesis: embracing missions -- Staring at the sea: Nicolle and the Pasteur Institute of Tunis -- The threshold of civilization: typhus in Tunisia -- Rupture: things fall apart -- Light & shadow: lousy war and fractured peace -- Antithesis: mosaics of pieces -- Alliances: "Emperor of the Mediterranean"? -- Invisible forces: or, action at a distance -- Synthesis: mosaics of power -- Reservoir docs: birth, life, and death of infectious disease -- Mosaics of power: confronting paris -- Denouement -- At home with my shadows: patrie de nomade.