Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire.

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Did you know that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? And did you know that many Ottomans applauded the establishment of a quarantine against the disease in 1838 as...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bulmus, Birsen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico Software eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh University Press 20050101.
Temas:
1288-1918
Plague > Turkey > Historiography.
Plague > Political aspects > Turkey > Historiography.
Quarantine > Turkey > Historiography.
Quarantine > Political aspects > Turkey > Historiography.
Regional & national history.
HISTORY / General.
Historiography
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 > Historiography.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Empire ottoman > Histoire.
Turkey
History
plague
quarantines
Ottoman Empire
Islam
state formation
print culture
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map of Ottoman Empire; Chapter1 Preliminary Remarks; Chapter2 Conceptualising Plague in Ottoman Islamic Thought; Chapter3 Plague and Ottoman Medical Thought; Chapter4 Magic and Plague in the Ottoman Empire; Chapter5 Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman Quarantine Reform; Chapter6 Plague and Quarantines in the Colonial Era; Chapter7 Plague, Sanitary Administration and the End of Empire; Chapter8 Towards a New Understanding of Plague and Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire; Bibliography; Index

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