Quarantine

Local and Global Histories

By: Alison Bashford

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Paperback | 13 September 2016 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"This volume presents readers with a multiplicity of sites and measures implicated by quarantine policies in settings as diverse as the East, South and Southeast Asian regions, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds. ... Readers will find in this rich volume a wealth of valuable materials and insights that will surely inspire others to continue to listen to these voices." (Lucia Dacome, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 31 (3), August, 2018)

"This collection of essays provides a rich assortment of historical contexts for understanding its past complexities and hence its present implications. ... Quarantine is a fine book. Its authors skilfully employ both primary and secondary sources, and the endnotes for each chapter are bouquets of bibliographic information for interested readers." (Jo N. Hays, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 43 (3), August, 2017)

"Local and global histories is a valuable collection which offers an abundance of material for comparative histories of maritime quarantine. Bashford's introduction envisages the collection as a first step towards 'an account of the principal lazarettos of the world in an era of globalization' ... and a compelling case has certainly been made for further work in this direction." (Michael Joseph, The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 4, 2017)

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