Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914 : space, identity and power /

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 bacter...

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Other Authors: Chircop, John (Editor), Martinez, Francisco Javier (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Series:Social histories of medicine.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Introduction Mediterranean quarantine disclosed: space, identity and power; I Space; 1 Quarantine and territory in Spain during the second half of the nineteenth century; 2 Cholera epidemics, local politics and nationalism in the province of Nice during the first half of the nineteenth century; 3 Mending 'Moors' in Mogador: Hajj, cholera and Spanish-Moroccan regeneration, 1890-99; II Identity.
  • 4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late eighteenthcentury Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî5 Policing boundaries: quarantine and professional identity in mid nineteenth-century Britain; 6 Prevention and stigma: the sanitary control of Muslim pilgrims from the Balkans, 1830-1914; 7 Contagion controversies on cholera and yellow fever in mid nineteenth-century Spain: the case of Nicasio Landa; III Power; 8 Quarantine, sanitisation, colonialism and the construction of the 'contagious Arab' in the Mediterranean, 1830s-1900.
  • 9 Epidemics, quarantine and state control in Portugal, 1750-180510 Quarantine and British 'protection' of the Ionian Islands, 1815-64; 11 Inland sanitary cordons and liberal administration in southern Europe: Mallorca (Balearic Islands), 1820-70; Index.