The Yellow Flag

Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1860

AvAlex Chase-Levenson

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Until the middle of the nineteenth century, quarantine laws in all Western European nations mandated the detention of every inbound trader, traveller, soldier, sailor, merchant, missionary, letter, and trade good arriving from the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Most of these quarantines occurred in large, ominous fortresses in Mediterranean port cities. Alex Chase-Levenson examines Britain's engagement with this Mediterranean border regime from multiple angles. He explores how quarantine practice laid the foundations for the state provision of public health and constituted an early example of European integration. Situated at the intersection of political, cultural, diplomatic, and medical history, The Yellow Flag captures the texture of quarantine as an experience, its power as an administrative precedent, and its novelty as an example of a continental border built from the ground up by low-level bureaucrats.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-27
Mått:151 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global Health Histories
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108707282

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Alex Chase-Levenson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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'A refreshingly original look at a phenomenon historians have chronically misunderstood. Imaginative and vivid, The Yellow Flag uses exhaustive archival research to breathe life into centuries-old policies and debates. The book is about more than just quarantine; it delves deeply into one of the great questions of the nineteenth century - and indeed of our own age: what are the responsibilities of the modern state?' David Barnes, University of Pennsylvania

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I. Mediterranean Currents: 1. Universal agitation; 2. Locating the British Mediterranean world; Part II. Lazarettos, Health Boards, and the Building of a Biopolity: 3. Governing quarantine; 4. 'A sort of hospital-prison'; 5. A European system; Part III. Imagining the Plague: 6. Plague and 'civilization'; 7. A prescription for England's condition; Part IV. Old Patterns, New Cordons: 8. Quarantine and empire; 9. Mutually assured deconstruction; Conclusion: Plagueomania; Bibliography; Index.

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