Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0748646590
ISBN-13
9780748646593
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2012
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Dimensions
24.00 x 17.10 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Middle Eastern historyIslamInternational relationsHistory of medicine
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A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923
Did you know that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? And did you know that many Ottomans applauded the establishment of a quarantine against the disease in 1838 as a tool to resist British and French political and commercial penetration? Or that later Ottoman sanitation effort to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? Birsen Bulmus explores these facts in an engaging study of Ottoman plague treatise writers throughout their almost 600-year struggle with this epidemic disease. Along the way, she addresses the political, economic and social consequences of the methods they used to combat it.
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