Book contents
- The Yellow Flag
- Global Health Histories
- The Yellow Flag
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text and Translations
- Introduction
- Part I Mediterranean Currents
- Part II Lazarettos, Health Boards, and the Building of a Biopolity
- Part III Imagining the Plague
- Part IV Old Patterns, New Cordons
- 8 Quarantine and Empire
- 9 Mutually Assured Deconstruction
- Conclusion: Plagueomania
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Quarantine and Empire
from Part IV - Old Patterns, New Cordons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2020
- The Yellow Flag
- Global Health Histories
- The Yellow Flag
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text and Translations
- Introduction
- Part I Mediterranean Currents
- Part II Lazarettos, Health Boards, and the Building of a Biopolity
- Part III Imagining the Plague
- Part IV Old Patterns, New Cordons
- 8 Quarantine and Empire
- 9 Mutually Assured Deconstruction
- Conclusion: Plagueomania
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 8 shows how British imperialism spread quarantine practice to new areas of the globe. We examine British responses to plague epidemics in Malta, Corfu, and India. I argue that British use of quarantine in these imperial contexts demonstrates how firmly inflected by Mediterranean practice the global response to epidemic disease had become, even as quarantine was implicated only in very specific contexts. Particular attention is paid to the way in which imperial medical practice in response to the plague (particularly in Northern India in the mid-nineteenth century) fused approaches from both the contagionists and the anticontagionists.
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- The Yellow FlagQuarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860, pp. 219 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020