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Title: | Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914 : space, identity and power |
Authors: | Chircop, John Martinez, Francisco Javier |
Keywords: | Medicine -- Mediterranean Region -- History Mediterranean Region -- History -- 19th century Mediterranean Region -- History -- 18th century Mediterranean Region -- History -- 20th century Quarantine -- Mediterranean Region -- History Communicable diseases -- Hospitals -- Mediterranean Region Western countries -- Relations -- Islamic countries Mediterranean Region -- Politics and government |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
Citation: | Chircop, J., & Martinez, J. F. (Ed.) (2018). Mediterranean Quarantines. Space, Power and Identity, 1780-1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press. |
Abstract: | 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. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103997 |
ISBN: | 9781526127365 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHis |
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