Quarantine

Local and Global Histories

AvAlison Bashford

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge. This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce. With case studies from as far afield as the Red Sea, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and from the early modern period forward, this book provides an invaluable insight into the history of quarantine.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-13
Mått:138 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781137524447

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Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She was formerly Whitlam and Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, USA, where she taught the history of global health. She currently holds positions on many scholarly and publishing advisory boards in the UK, the US and Australia. Her many books have brought together medical history, world history and environmental history.

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This volume presents readers with a multiplicity of sites and measures implicated by quarantine policies in settings as diverse as the East, South and Southeast Asian regions, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds … Readers will find in this rich volume a wealth of valuable materials and insights that will surely inspire others to continue to listen to these voices.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Maritime Quarantine: Linking Old World and New World Histories; Alison BashfordPART I: QUARANTINE HISTORIES IN TIME AND PLACE2. The Places and Spaces of Early Modern Quarantine; Jane Stevens Crawshaw3. Early Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Quarantine as a European System; Alexander Chase-Levenson4. Incarceration and Resistance in a Red Sea Lazaretto, 1880-1930; Saurabh Mishra5. Spaces of Quarantine in Colonial Hong Kong; Robert Peckham6. Quarantine in the Dutch East Indies; Hans Pols7. The Empire of Medical Investigation on Angel Island, California; Nayan Shah8. Quarantine for Venereal Disease: New Zealand, 1915-18; Barbara Brookes9. Influenza and Quarantine in Samoa; John Ryan McLane10. Yellow Fever, Quarantine and the Jet Age in India: Extremely Far, Incredibly Close; Kavita SivaramakrishnanPART II: HERITAGE: MEMORIALISING LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE11. Sydney's Landscapes of Quarantine; Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick and Peter Hobbins12. Sana Ducos: the Last Leprosarium in New Caledonia; Ingrid Sykes13. History, Testimony, and the Afterlife of Quarantine: The National Hansen's Disease Museum of Japan; Susan L. Burns14. Citizenship and Quarantine at Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Seduction of Interruption; Gareth HoskinsAfterword; Mark HarrisonNotesIndex.