TY  - BOOK
AU  - Javier Martinez, Francisco
AU  - Chircop, John
AB  - 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.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 645510
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1029411397
KW  - long 19th century
KW  - power
KW  - quarantine
KW  - mediterranean
KW  - space
KW  - identity
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30518
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781526115546
TI  - Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914: Space, identity and powernull
ER  - 
