Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

Autor Birsen Bulmus

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2012 – vârsta de la 22 ani

A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780748646593
ISBN-10: 0748646590
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 1 maps, 1 black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 171 x 240 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Notă biografică

Dr Birsen Bulmus is an Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Appalachian State University. Her academic research fields are the history of medicine, Ottoman history, and the history of the Islamic world. This book is an expanded version of her dissertation she submitted at Georgetown University in May 2008. She extensively utilized Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish, English and French primary sources in order to complete this project.

Cuprins

Chapter 1. Preliminary Remarks; Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Plague in Ottoman Islamic Thought; Chapter 3. Plague & Ottoman Medical Thought; Chapter 4. Magic & Plague in the Ottoman Empire; Chapter 5. Hamdan Bin El-Merhum Osman & the Ottoman Quarantine Reform; Chapter 6. Plague & Quarantines in the Colonial Era; Chapter 7. Plague, Sanitary Administration, and the End of Empire; Chapter 8. Towards a New Understanding of Plague and Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire; Bibliography.

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