Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914: Space, identity and power
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 bacter...
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Manchester University Press
2018
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