Mediterranean Quarantines, 17501914: Space, Identity and Power

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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 -- .

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A collection of essays that both represents cutting-edge study on numerous areas of quarantine history and simultaneously opens the door to new research.
Alex Chase-Levenson, University of Pennsylvania, Social History of Medicine, Volume 32, Issue 2, May 2019

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John Chircop is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Chairperson of the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta

Francisco Javier Martnez is FCT Researcher at CIDEHUS, University of vora, Portugal