Quarantine

1. Maritime Quarantine: Linking Old World and New World Histories; Alison Bashford.- PART I: QUARANTINE HISTORIES IN TIME AND PLACE.- 2. The Places and Spaces of Early Modern Quarantine; Jane Stevens Crawshaw.- 3. Early Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Quarantine as a European System; Alexander Chase-Levenson.- 4. Incarceration and Resistance in a Red Sea Lazaretto, 1880-1930; Saurabh Mishra.- 5. Spaces of Quarantine in Colonial Hong Kong; Robert Peckham.- 6. Quarantine in the Dutch East Indies; Hans Pols.- 7. The Empire of Medical Investigation on Angel Island, California; Nayan Shah.- 8. Quarantine for Venereal Disease: New Zealand, 1915-18; Barbara Brookes.- 9. Influenza and Quarantine in Samoa; John Ryan McLane.- 10. Yellow Fever, Quarantine and the Jet Age in India: Extremely Far, Incredibly Close; Kavita SivaramakrishnanPART II: HERITAGE: MEMORIALISING LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE.- 11. Sydney's Landscapes of Quarantine; Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick and Peter Hobbins.- 12. Sana Ducos: the Last Leprosarium in New Caledonia; Ingrid Sykes.- 13. History, Testimony, and the Afterlife of Quarantine: The National Hansen's Disease Museum of Japan; Susan L. Burns.- 14. Citizenship and Quarantine at Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Seduction of Interruption; Gareth Hoskins.- Afterword; Mark Harrison.- Notes.- Index.

Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She was formerly Whitlam and Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, USA, where she taught the history of global health. She currently holds positions on many scholarly and publishing advisory boards in the UK, the US and Australia. Her many books have brought together medical history, world history and environmental history.

"This volume presents readers with a multiplicity of sites and measures implicated by quarantine policies in settings as diverse as the East, South and Southeast Asian regions, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds. ... Readers will find in this rich volume a wealth of valuable materials and insights that will surely inspire others to continue to listen to these voices." (Lucia Dacome, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 31 (3), August, 2018)

"This collection of essays provides a rich assortment of historical contexts for understanding its past complexities and hence its present implications. ... Quarantine is a fine book. Its authors skilfully employ both primary and secondary sources, and the endnotes for each chapter are bouquets of bibliographic information for interested readers." (Jo N. Hays, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 43 (3), August, 2017)

"Local and global histories is a valuable collection which offers an abundance of material for comparative histories of maritime quarantine. Bashford's introduction envisages the collection as a first step towards 'an account of the principal lazarettos of the world in an era of globalization' ... and a compelling case has certainly been made for further work in this direction." (Michael Joseph, The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 4, 2017)