Chapter 8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the 'contagious Arab' in the Mediterranean, 1830s-1900
This chapter investigates the setting up of a network of lazarettos along the southern and eastern littorals of the Mediterranean during the nineteenth century. The fundamental thesis is that these lazarettos, constructed and frequently directed by Europeans, sustained the expansion of Western colon...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester University Press
2018
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| Series: | Social Histories of Medicine
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |