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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 multiple
angles. He explores how quarantine practice laid the foundations
for the state provision of public health and constituted an early
example of European integration. Situated at the intersection of
political, cultural, diplomatic, and medical history, The Yellow
Flag captures the texture of quarantine as an experience, its power
as an administrative precedent, and its novelty as an example of a
continental border built from the ground up by low-level
bureaucrats.
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