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

• Autore: Bulmuş Birsen
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh University Press, 2005; Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.57320956
• Soggetto topico: Quarantine - Political aspects - Turkey - Historiography; Quarantine - Turkey - Historiography; Plague - Political aspects - Turkey - Historiography; Plague - Turkey - Historiography
• Soggetto geografico: Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 Historiography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: History; plague; quarantines; Ottoman Empire; Islam; state formation; print culture; Bubonic plague; God
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
• ISBN: 1-4744-2339-6; 0-7486-4660-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996463253603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno