Until the middle of the nineteenth century, quarantine laws in all Western European nations mandated the detention of every inbound trader, traveller, soldier, sailor, merchant, missionary, letter, and trade good arriving from the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Most of these quarantines occurred in large, ominous fortresses in Mediterranean port cities. Alex Chase-Levenson examines Britain's engagement with this Mediterranean border regime from multiple angles. He explores how quarantine practice laid the foundations for the state provision of public health and constituted an early example of European integration. Situated at the intersection of political, cultural, diplomatic, and medical history, The Yellow Flag captures the texture of quarantine as an experience, its power as an administrative precedent, and its novelty as an example of a continental border built from the ground up by low-level bureaucrats.
Author(s): Alex Chase-Levenson
Series: Global health histories
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020
01.0_pp_i_i_The_Yellow_Flag
02.0_pp_ii_ii_Global_Health_Histories
03.0_pp_iii_iii_The_Yellow_Flag
04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
05.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication
06.0_pp_vii_vii_Contents
07.0_pp_viii_viii_Figures
08.0_pp_ix_xi_Acknowledgments
09.0_pp_xii_xii_Note_on_the_Text_and_Translations
10.0_pp_1_24_Introduction
11.0_pp_25_74_Mediterranean_Currents
11.1_pp_27_47_Universal_Agitation
11.2_pp_48_74_Locating_the_British_Mediterranean_World
12.0_pp_75_154_Lazarettos_Health_Boards_and_the_Building_of_a_Biopolity
12.1_pp_77_94_Governing_Quarantine
12.2_pp_95_122_A_Sort_of_Hospital-Prison
12.3_pp_123_154_A_European_System
13.0_pp_155_216_Imagining_the_Plague
13.1_pp_157_178_Plague_and_Civilization
13.2_pp_179_216_A_Prescription_for_Englands_Condition
14.0_pp_217_281_Old_Patterns_New_Cordons
14.1_pp_219_243_Quarantine_and_Empire
14.2_pp_244_277_Mutually_Assured_Deconstruction
14.3_pp_278_281_Conclusion_Plagueomania
15.0_pp_282_300_Bibliography
16.0_pp_301_308_Index
