Plague, Quarantines, and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

Birsen Bulmuş

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May, 2012
Cloth, 160 pages, 0
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4659-3
Edinburgh University Press
$105.00

This book traces the eventual Ottoman acceptance of quarantines and other modern medical reforms. It analyses international debates over plagues and quarantines as a struggle about colonialism and national sovereignty.

Related Subjects

• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Birsen Bulmuş is assistant professor of Middle Eastern History at Appalachian State University.

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