Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world : the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600 /

"This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scient...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Varlik, Nükhet (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
Temas:
1288-1918
Plague > Turkey > Epidemiology > History.
Black Death > Turkey > History.
Plague > Environmental aspects > Turkey > History.
Plague > Social aspects > Turkey > History.
Plague > Political aspects > Turkey > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > Turkey > History.
Plague > history
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Black Death
Ecology
Imperialism > Social aspects
Plague > Epidemiology
Plague > Social aspects
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Turkey > Environmental conditions > History.
Turkey
Empire ottoman > Histoire.
Asie Mineure > Conditions environnementales > Histoire.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Plague : History and Historiography
  • 1. A natural history of plague
  • 2. Plague in Ottomanist and non-Ottomanist historiography
  • 3. The Black Death and its aftermath (1347-1453)
  • Part II. Plague of Empire
  • 4. The first phase (1453-1517) : plague comes from the West
  • 5. The second phase (1517-70) : multiple plague trajectories
  • 6. The third phase (1570-1600) : Istanbul as plague hub
  • Part III. Empire of Plague
  • 7. Plague transformed : changing perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes
  • 8. The state of the plague : politics of bodies in the making of the Ottoman state
  • Epilogue.

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