The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780-1860

by Alex Chase-Levenson

Book Overview

Until the middle of the nineteenth century, quarantine laws in all Western European nations mandated the detention of every inbound trader, traveller, soldier, sailor, merchant, missionary, letter, and trade good arriving from the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Most of these quarantines occurred in large, ominous fortresses in Mediterranean port cities. Alex Chase-Levenson examines Britain's engagement with this Mediterranean border regime from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108707289
• ISBN13: 9781108707282
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"