The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860 (Global Health Histories)

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Until the middle of the nineteenth century, quarantine laws in all Western European nations mandated the detention of every inbound trader, traveller, soldier, sailor, merchant, missionary, letter, and trade good arriving from the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Most of these quarantines occurred in large, ominous fortresses in Mediterranean port cities. Alex Chase-Levenson examines Britain's engagement with this Mediterranean border regime from multiple angles. He explores how quarantine practice laid the foundations for the state provision of public health and constituted an early example of European integration. Situated at the intersection of political, cultural, diplomatic, and medical history, The Yellow Flag captures the texture of quarantine as an experience, its power as an administrative precedent, and its novelty as an example of a continental border built from the ground up by low-level bureaucrats.


  • | Author: Alex Chase-Levenson
  • | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • | Publication Date: Oct 27, 2022
  • | Number of Pages: 319 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/Medical
  • | ISBN-10: 1108707289
  • | ISBN-13: 9781108707282
Author:
Alex Chase-Levenson
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Oct 27, 2022
Number of pages:
319 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Medical
ISBN-10:
1108707289
ISBN-13:
9781108707282