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Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire

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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 di
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Hardcover, 208 pages
Published May 15th 2012 by Edinburgh University Press (first published April 4th 2012)
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