Quarantine: Local and Global Histories

ISBN-13: 9781137524447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str.

Alison Bashford

Opis

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge.

This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce. With case studies from as far afield as the Red Sea, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and from the early modern period forward, this book provides an invaluable insight into the history of quarantine.

Recenzje

"This volume presents readers with a multiplicity of sites and measures implicated by quarantine policies in settings as diverse as the East, South and Southeast Asian regions, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds. ... Readers will find in this rich volume a wealth of valuable materials and insights that will surely inspire others to continue to listen to these voices." (Lucia Dacome, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 31 (3), August, 2018)

"This collection of essays provides a rich assortment of historical contexts for understanding its past complexities and hence its present implications. ... Quarantine is a fine book. Its authors skilfully employ both primary and secondary sources, and the endnotes for each chapter are bouquets of bibliographic information for interested readers." (Jo N. Hays, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 43 (3), August, 2017)

"Local and global histories is a valuable collection which offers an abundance of material for comparative histories of maritime quarantine. Bashford's introduction envisages the collection as a first step towards 'an account of the principal lazarettos of the world in an era of globalization' ... and a compelling case has certainly been made for further work in this direction." (Michael Joseph, The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 4, 2017)

Spis treści

1. Maritime Quarantine: Linking Old World and New World Histories; Alison Bashford PART I: QUARANTINE HISTORIES IN TIME AND PLACE 2. The Places and Spaces of Early Modern Quarantine; Jane Stevens Crawshaw 3. Early Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Quarantine as a European System; Alexander Chase-Levenson 4. Incarceration and Resistance in a Red Sea Lazaretto, 1880-1930; Saurabh Mishra 5. Spaces of Quarantine in Colonial Hong Kong; Robert Peckham 6. Quarantine in the Dutch East Indies; Hans Pols 7. The Empire of Medical Investigation on Angel Island, California; Nayan Shah 8. Quarantine for Venereal Disease: New Zealand, 1915-18; Barbara Brookes 9. Influenza and Quarantine in Samoa; John Ryan McLane 10. Yellow Fever, Quarantine and the Jet Age in India: Extremely Far, Incredibly Close; Kavita Sivaramakrishnan PART II: HERITAGE: MEMORIALISING LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE 11. Sydney's Landscapes of Quarantine; Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick and Peter Hobbins 12. Sana Ducos: the Last Leprosarium in New Caledonia; Ingrid Sykes 13. History, Testimony, and the Afterlife of Quarantine: The National Hansen's Disease Museum of Japan; Susan L. Burns 14. Citizenship and Quarantine at Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Seduction of Interruption; Gareth Hoskins Afterword; Mark Harrison Notes Index.

O autorze

Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She was formerly Whitlam and Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, USA, where she taught the history of global health. She currently holds positions on many scholarly and publishing advisory boards in the UK, the US and Australia. Her many books have brought together medical history, world history and environmental history.