The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1860

ISBN-13: 9781108485548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 318 str.

Alex Chase-Levenson

Opis

Examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system to show how fear of disease drew Britain into a Continental biopolity.

Recenzje

'The Yellow Flag will reward readers interested in the history of health, diplomacy, and travel in the Mediterranean and beyond.' Kathleen Frederickson, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Mediterranean Currents: 1. Universal agitation; 2. Locating the British Mediterranean world; Part II. Lazarettos, Health Boards, and the Building of a Biopolity: 3. Governing quarantine; 4. 'A sort of hospital-prison'; 5. A European system; Part III. Imagining the Plague: 6. Plague and 'civilization'; 7. A prescription for England's condition; Part IV. Old Patterns, New Cordons: 8. Quarantine and empire; 9. Mutually assured deconstruction; Conclusion: Plagueomania; Bibliography; Index.