Book ID: CBB481671225

The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1860 (2020)

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Chase-Levenson, Alex (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 318
Language: English

"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"--

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Authors & Contributors
Adria L. Imada
Silvano, Giovanni
Pouget, Benoît
Francesco Bianchi
Chircop, John
Aslanian, Sebouh David
Concepts
Public health
Medicine and society
Medicine
Quarantine
Disease and diseases
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Mediterranean region
Spain
France
Indian Ocean
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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