id
	14053
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/14053
Resource template
	Book
Resource class
	bibo:Book
Title
	The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860
Creator
	Chase-Levenson, Alex
Publisher
	Cambridge University Press
Date
	2020
Language
	eng
Abstract
	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.
Spatial Coverage
	Cambridge
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108751773
Isbn
	978-1-108-48554-8
Short title
	The Yellow Flag
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/GP5QAU7B/item-list
In series
	Global Health Histories

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