Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

Download or read book Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire written by Birsen Bulmus and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923Were you aware that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? Did you know that many Ottomans applauded the establishment of a quarantine against the disease in 1838 as a tool to resist British and French political and commercial penetration? Or that later Ottoman sanitation efforts to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? ...