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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 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

Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

Digitalisierung: Halle/S UuLB

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Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Birsen Bulmuş

Schlagwort
Gesundheitswesen
Pest
Quarantäne

Urheber
Bulmuş, Birsen
Erschienen
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2012

Förderung
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
DOI
doi:10.25673/108646
URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-93520
Letzte Aktualisierung
04.06.2025, 13:14 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • book ; book ; Abschnitt

Beteiligte

  • Bulmuş, Birsen

Entstanden

  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2012

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