The English System: Quarantine, Immigration and the Making of a Port Sanitary Zone - Couverture rigide

Maglen, Krista

 
9780719089657: The English System: Quarantine, Immigration and the Making of a Port Sanitary Zone
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0719089654 ISBN 13 : 9780719089657
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. During the later nineteenth century, British public health officials transformed the medieval quarantine system into a novel 'English System' of surveillance to control the introduction of infectious disease. This removed the much maligned hindrances of quarantine to high-speed international commerce and for maritime traffic through Britain's ports. At the same time, calls were made to restrict the arrival of increasing numbers of European immigrants and transmigrants. This book explores the tensions and transition in the regulation of port health from a paradigm focused on the origin of disease to one which converged on the origin of the diseased.

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À propos de l?auteur

Krista Maglen is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington

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Éditeur
Manchester University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0719089654
ISBN 13 
9780719089657
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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