Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power
- Manchester University Press 2018
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Social Histories of Medicine .
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Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its original birthplace. The new epidemics of cholera and the development of bacteriology and hygiene, European colonial expansion, the intensification of commercial interchanges, the technological revolution in maritime and land transportation and the modernisation policies in Islamic countries were among the main factors behind such transformations. The book focuses on case studies on the European and Islamic shores of the Mediterranean showing the multidimensional nature of quarantine, the intimate links that sanitary administrations and institutions had with the territorial organisation of states, international trade, the construction of national, colonial, religious and professional identities of political regimes.
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English
9781526115546
c 1500 onwards to present day
European history
History and Archaeology
History of medicine
Social and cultural history
Society and Social Sciences
identity long 19th century mediterranean power quarantine space
Free-to-read
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its original birthplace. The new epidemics of cholera and the development of bacteriology and hygiene, European colonial expansion, the intensification of commercial interchanges, the technological revolution in maritime and land transportation and the modernisation policies in Islamic countries were among the main factors behind such transformations. The book focuses on case studies on the European and Islamic shores of the Mediterranean showing the multidimensional nature of quarantine, the intimate links that sanitary administrations and institutions had with the territorial organisation of states, international trade, the construction of national, colonial, religious and professional identities of political regimes.
All rights reserved
English
9781526115546
c 1500 onwards to present day
European history
History and Archaeology
History of medicine
Social and cultural history
Society and Social Sciences
identity long 19th century mediterranean power quarantine space