Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914 : : space, identity and power / / edited by John Chircop, Francisco Javier Martinez.

• Superior document: Social histories of medicine
• VerfasserIn: Javier Martinez, Francisco; Chircop, John
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Social histories of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) :; maps; digital, PDF file(s).
• Audience: Academic.
• ISBN: 1526115557
• Hierarchical level: Article, Chapter, ...
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by John Chircop, Francisco Javier Martinez.

'This volume aims to uncover the political, social and cultural factors that influenced the development of sanitary quarantine to combat epidemics in the Mediterranean during the long nineteenth century. Contributions to the book provide new interdisciplinary insights to the vibrant field of quarantine studies through the analytical lenses of space, identity and power.The circum-Mediterranean spread of case studies in the volume sheds light on the similarities and differences in the use and evolution of quarantines across the region. From Southern to Northern shores, chapters present coverage across Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, English and French speaking domains. The book as a whole engages a wide range of terms, sources, bibliography, interpretative tools and views produced and elaborated in the Mediterranean context.This book is of interest to the global community of medical historians as well as scholars and students of colonial history, cultural studies of the Arab-Islamic world, human geographers and contemporary international relations' --Back cover. 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, political regimes and the construction of national, colonial and professional identities.