Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
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Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

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Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2005
eBook ISBN
9781474423397
Topic
Histoire
Subtopic
Histoire du monde

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Map of Ottoman Empire
  6. Chapter1 Preliminary Remarks
  7. Chapter2 Conceptualising Plague in Ottoman Islamic Thought
  8. Chapter3 Plague and Ottoman Medical Thought
  9. Chapter4 Magic and Plague in the Ottoman Empire
  10. Chapter5 Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman Quarantine Reform
  11. Chapter6 Plague and Quarantines in the Colonial Era
  12. Chapter7 Plague, Sanitary Administration and the End of Empire
  13. Chapter8 Towards a New Understanding of Plague and Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index