Nükhet Varlik

Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781108412773
• ISBN-10: 1108412777
• Artikelnr.: 48209080

Autorenporträt

Nükhet Varlik is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship by the American Research Institute in Turkey, a Senior Fellowship from Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, and a Turkish Cultural Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Plague: History and Historiography: 1. A natural history of plague
2. Plague in Ottomanist and non-Ottomanist historiography
3. The Black Death and its aftermath (1347-1453)
Part II. Plague of Empire: 4. The first phase (1453-1517): plague comes from the West
5. The second phase (1517-70): multiple plague trajectories
6. The third phase (1570-1600): Istanbul as plague hub
Part III. Empire of Plague: 7. Plague transformed: changing perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes
8. The state of the plague: politics of bodies in the making of the Ottoman state
Epilogue.