Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /

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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Autor principal: Bulmuş, Birsen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Historiography.
Politics, Practical.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
Biography and True Stories.
politics.
Politique.
Communicable Diseases.
Infectious Diseases.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Public Health.
Medicine.
Politics
Plague > history
Quarantine > history
Quarantine > Political aspects > Turkey > Historiography.
Quarantine > Turkey > Historiography.
Plague > Political aspects > Turkey > Historiography.
Plague > Turkey > Historiography.
Turkey.
Empire ottoman > Histoire.
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 > Historiography.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Preliminary remarks
  • 2. Conceptualizing plague in Ottoman Islamic thought
  • 3. Plague and Ottoman medical thought
  • 4. Magic and plague in the Ottoman Empire
  • 5. Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman quarantine reform
  • 6. Plague and quarantines in the Colonial Era
  • 7. Plague, sanitary administration, and the end of Empire
  • 8. Towards a new understanding of plague and quarantines in the Ottoman Empire.

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