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Record Nr.

UNISA996463253603316

Autore

Bulmuş Birsen

Titolo

Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire / Birsen Bulmuş

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh University Press, 2005

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4744-2339-6

0-7486-4660-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

614.57320956

Soggetti

Quarantine - Political aspects - Turkey - Historiography

Quarantine - Turkey - Historiography

Plague - Political aspects - Turkey - Historiography

Plague - Turkey - Historiography

Electronic books.

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map of Ottoman Empire; Chapter1 Preliminary Remarks; Chapter2 Conceptualising Plague in Ottoman Islamic Thought; Chapter3 Plague and Ottoman Medical Thought; Chapter4 Magic and Plague in the Ottoman Empire; Chapter5 Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman and the Ottoman Quarantine Reform; Chapter6 Plague and Quarantines in the Colonial Era; Chapter7 Plague, Sanitary Administration and the End of Empire; Chapter8 Towards a New Understanding of Plague and Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923Were you aware 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? 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 efforts to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? This b