Quarantine : local and global histories

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Quarantine : local and global histories

edited by Alison Bashford

Palgrave, 2016

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Includes index

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Description

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge. This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce. With case studies from as far afield as the Red Sea, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and from the early modern period forward, this book provides an invaluable insight into the history of quarantine.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Maritime Quarantine: Linking Old World and New World Histories
  • Alison Bashford PART I: QUARANTINE HISTORIES IN TIME AND PLACE 2. The Places and Spaces of Early Modern Quarantine
  • Jane Stevens Crawshaw 3. Early Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Quarantine as a European System
  • Alexander Chase-Levenson 4. Incarceration and Resistance in a Red Sea Lazaretto, 1880-1930
  • Saurabh Mishra 5. Spaces of Quarantine in Colonial Hong Kong
  • Robert Peckham 6. Quarantine in the Dutch East Indies
  • Hans Pols 7. The Empire of Medical Investigation on Angel Island, California
  • Nayan Shah 8. Quarantine for Venereal Disease: New Zealand, 1915-18
  • Barbara Brookes 9. Influenza and Quarantine in Samoa
  • John Ryan McLane 10. Yellow Fever, Quarantine and the Jet Age in India: Extremely Far, Incredibly Close
  • Kavita Sivaramakrishnan PART II: HERITAGE: MEMORIALISING LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE 11. Sydney's Landscapes of Quarantine
  • Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick and Peter Hobbins 12. Sana Ducos: the Last Leprosarium in New Caledonia
  • Ingrid Sykes 13. History, Testimony, and the Afterlife of Quarantine: The National Hansen's Disease Museum of Japan
  • Susan L. Burns 14. Citizenship and Quarantine at Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Seduction of Interruption
  • Gareth Hoskins Afterword
  • Mark Harrison Notes Index.

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  • NCID
    BC03480512
  • ISBN
    • 9781137524454
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 330 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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