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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Main Author: Javier Martinez, Francisco (auth)
Other Authors: Chircop, John (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Manchester University Press 2018
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