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245 00 |a Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914 : |b space, identity and power / |c edited by John Chircop, Francisco Javier Martinez.

505 0_ |a 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.

520 __ |a 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, the construction of national, colonial, religious and professional identities of political regimes.

650 _0 |a Quarantine |x Political aspects |z Mediterranean Region |x History.

650 _0 |a Quarantine |x Law and legislation |z Mediterranean Region |x History.