The Yellow Flag Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860 Global Health Histories Series
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Chase-Levenson Alex
Examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system to show how fear of disease drew Britain into a Continental biopolity.
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.
Introduction; Part I. Mediterranean Currents: 1. Universal agitation; 2. Locating the British Mediterranean world; Part II. Lazarettos, Health Boards, and the Building of a Biopolity: 3. Governing quarantine; 4. 'A sort of hospital-prison'; 5. A European system; Part III. Imagining the Plague: 6. Plague and 'civilization'; 7. A prescription for England's condition; Part IV. Old Patterns, New Cordons: 8. Quarantine and empire; 9. Mutually assured deconstruction; Conclusion: Plagueomania; Bibliography; Index.
Alex Chase-Levenson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Date de parution : 10-2022
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