Alex Chase-Levenson examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system from 1780 to 1860, demonstrating how quarantine fostered early forms of European integration, laid the foundation for modern public health, and shaped Western perceptions of the 'East'.
Examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system to show how fear of disease drew Britain into a Continental biopolity.
'Chase-Levenson's rich transnational history of Mediterranean quarantine powerfully illuminates the early 19th century significance of plague and other epidemics for the construction of a 'European biopolity', the consolidation of quarantine as a system reciprocally binding Britain and its European Mediterranean trading partners, and the oft-times parochial history of English public health.' James Hanley, University of Winnipeg
