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This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean.
List of contents
Introduction: Mediterranean quarantine disclosed: space, identity and power - John Chircop and Francisco Javier Martínez
Part I: Space1 Quarantine and territory in Spain during the second half of the nineteenth century - Quim Bonastra
2 Cholera epidemics, local politics and nationalism in the province of Nice during the first half of the nineteenth century - Dominique Bon
3 Mending 'Moors' in Mogador:
Hajj, cholera and Spanish-Moroccan regeneration, 1890-99 - Francisco Javier Martínez
Part II: Identity4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî - Malika Ezzahidi
5 Policing boundaries: quarantine and professional identity in mid-nineteenth-century Britain -
Lisa Rosner
6 Prevention and stigma: the sanitary control of Muslim pilgrims from the Balkans, 1830-1914 - Christian Promitzer
7 Contagion controversies on cholera and yellow fever in mid-nineteenth-century Spain: the case of Nicasio Landa - Jon Arrizabalaga and Juan Carlos García-Reyes
Part III: Power8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the 'contagious Arab' in the Mediterranean, 1830s-1900 - John Chircop
9 Epidemics, quarantine and state control in Portugal, 1750-1805 - Laurinda Abreu
10 Quarantine and British "protection" of the Ionian Islands, 1815-64 - Costas Tsiamis, Eleni Thalassinou, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou and Angelos Hatzakis
11 Inland sanitary cordons and liberal administration in southern Europe: Mallorca (Balearic Islands), 1820-70 - Joana Maria Pujades-Mora and Pere Salas-Vives
Index
About the author
John Chircop is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Chairperson of the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta
Francisco Javier Martínez is FCT Researcher at CIDEHUS, University of Évora, Portugal
Summary
This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean. -- .
