Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914 : : space, identity and power / / 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 qu...
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Superior document: | Social histories of medicine |
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Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2018. ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Social histories of medicine.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) :; maps; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Mediterranean quarantine disclosed: space, identity and power / John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martínez
- Part I: Space
- 1. Quarantine and territory in Spain during the second half of the nineteenth century / Quim Bonastra
- 2. Cholera epidemics, local politics and nationalism in the province of Nice during the first half of the nineteenth century / Dominique Bon
- 3. Mending 'Moors' in Mogador: Hajj , cholera and Spanish-Moroccan regeneration, 1890–99 / Francisco Javier Martínez
- Part II: Identity
- 4. Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî / Malika Ezzahidi
- 5. Policing boundaries: quarantine and professional identity in mid-nineteenth-century Britain / Lisa Rosner
- 6. Prevention and stigma: the sanitary control of Muslim pilgrims from the Balkans, 1830–1914 / Christian Promitzer
- 7. Contagion controversies on cholera and yellow fever in mid-nineteenth-century Spain: the case of Nicasio Landa / Jon rrizabalaga and Juan Carlos García-Reyes
- Part III: Power
- 8. Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the ‘contagious Arab’ in the Mediterranean, 1830s–1900 / John Chircop
- 9. Epidemics, quarantine and state control in Portugal, 1750–1805 / Laurinda Abreu
- 10. Quarantine and British “protection” of the Ionian Islands, 1815–64 / Costas Tsiamis, Eleni Thalassinou, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou and Angelos Hatzakis
- 11. Inland sanitary cordons and liberal administration in southern Europe: Mallorca (Balearic Islands), 1820–70 / Joana Maria Pujades-Mora and Pere Salas-Vives
- Index.