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Maritime quarantine : the British experience, c.1650-1900 /

Title
Maritime quarantine : the British experience, c.1650-1900 / John Booker.
Author
Booker, John, 1941-
Publication
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

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Description
xviii, 624 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The history of medicine in context
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-571) and index.
Contents
The seventeenth century -- The Baltic crisis, 1709-1714 : policy and procedure -- The Baltic crisis, 1709-1714 : mercantile worries -- The Marseilles crisis, 1720-1723 -- Gibraltar and Minorea, 1720-1814 -- The Messina crisis and legislation, 1728-1754 -- Indecision in Britain, 1756-1788 -- The foul-bill dilemma, 1786-1800 -- Land or sea? : the Lazaretto debate, 1793-1800 -- British Board of Health and Kentish fiasco, 1803-1820 -- Malta : war, peace and plague, 1640-1814 -- Anti-contagionism in Britain, 1805-1825 -- Malta and the Ionian islands, 1815-1826 -- Mediterranean misery, plus cholera, 1825-1835 -- International deliberation, 1835-1853 -- Malta, 1826-1851, and the demise of quarantine.
ISBN
  • 9780754661788 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0754661784 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007007394
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library