Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire / by Birsen Bulmus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bulmuş, Birsen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plague--Turkey--Historiography.

Plague.

Plague--Political aspects--Turkey--Historiography.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Historiography.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version (hardback):

ISBN:

9781474423397

1474423396

9780748646609

0748646604

OCLC:

795695184

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access