Birsen Bulmus

Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923. Did you know 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? And 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 effort to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? Birsen Bulmus explores these facts in an engaging study of Ottoman plague treatise writers throughout their almost 600-year struggle with this epidemic disease. Along the way, she addresses the political, economic and social consequences of the methods they used to combat it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474423397
• Artikelnr.: 72419721

Autorenporträt

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.