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

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.