Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

• Tác giả: Birsen Bulmus
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• ISBN-13: 978-1474423397
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 614.5 Incidence of and public measures to prevent specific diseases and kinds of diseases
• Thông tin xuất bản: Edinburgh University Press 20050101
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 175826
• Chủ đề: 1. Regional & national history

Tóm tắt

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.