Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /
Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /
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...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2012]
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Obsah:
- 1. Preliminary remarks
- 2. Conceptualizing plague in Ottoman Islamic thought
- 3. Plague and Ottoman medical thought
- 4. Magic and plague in the Ottoman Empire
- 5. Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman quarantine reform
- 6. Plague and quarantines in the Colonial Era
- 7. Plague, sanitary administration, and the end of Empire
- 8. Towards a new understanding of plague and quarantines in the Ottoman Empire.