Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its original birthplace. The new epidemics of cholera and the development of bacteriology and hygiene, European colonial expansion, the intensification of commercial interchanges, the technological revolution in maritime and land transportation and the modernisation policies in Islamic countries were among the main factors behind such transformations. The book focuses on case studies on the European and Islamic shores of the Mediterranean showing the multidimensional nature of quarantine, the intimate links that sanitary administrations and institutions had with the territorial organisation of states, international trade, the construction of national, colonial, religious and professional identities of political regimes.

• Cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction Mediterranean quarantine disclosed: space, identity and power
• I Space
  • 1 Quarantine and territory in Spain during the second half of the nineteenth century
  • 2 Cholera epidemics, local politics and nationalism in the province of Nice during the first half of the nineteenth century
  • 3 Mending ‘Moors’ in Mogador: Hajj, cholera and Spanish–Moroccan regeneration, 1890–99
• II Identity
  • 4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late eighteenthcentury Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî
  • 5 Policing boundaries: quarantine and professional identity in mid nineteenth-century Britain
  • 6 Prevention and stigma: the sanitary control of Muslim pilgrims from the Balkans, 1830–1914
  • 7 Contagion controversies on cholera and yellow fever in mid nineteenth-century Spain: the case of Nicasio Landa
• III Power
  • 8 Quarantine, sanitisation, colonialism and the construction of the ‘contagious Arab’ in the Mediterranean, 1830s–1900
  • 9 Epidemics, quarantine and state control in Portugal, 1750–1805
  • 10 Quarantine and British ‘protection’ of the Ionian Islands, 1815–64
  • 11 Inland sanitary cordons and liberal administration in southern Europe: Mallorca (Balearic Islands), 1820–70
• Index