John Chircop is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Chairperson of the Mediterranean Institute, University of MaltaFrancisco Javier Martínez is FCT Researcher at CIDEHUS, University of Évora, Portugal

• Introduction: Mediterranean quarantine disclosed: space, identity and power – John Chircop and Francisco Javier MartínezPart I: Space1 Quarantine and territory in Spain during the second half of the nineteenth century – Quim Bonastra2 Cholera epidemics, local politics and nationalism in the province of Nice during the first half of the nineteenth century – Dominique Bon3 Mending 'Moors' in Mogador: Hajj, cholera and Spanish-Moroccan regeneration, 1890–99 – Francisco Javier MartínezPart II: Identity4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî – Malika Ezzahidi5 Policing boundaries: quarantine and professional identity in mid-nineteenth-century Britain – Lisa Rosner6 Prevention and stigma: the sanitary control of Muslim pilgrims from the Balkans, 1830–1914 – Christian Promitzer7 Contagion controversies on cholera and yellow fever in mid-nineteenth-century Spain: the case of Nicasio Landa – Jon Arrizabalaga and Juan Carlos García-ReyesPart III: Power8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the ‘contagious Arab’ in the Mediterranean, 1830s–1900 – John Chircop9 Epidemics, quarantine and state control in Portugal, 1750–1805 – Laurinda Abreu10 Quarantine and British “protection” of the Ionian Islands, 1815–64 – Costas Tsiamis, Eleni Thalassinou, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou and Angelos Hatzakis11 Inland sanitary cordons and liberal administration in southern Europe: Mallorca (Balearic Islands), 1820–70 – Joana Maria Pujades-Mora and Pere Salas-VivesIndex

‘A collection of essays that both represents cutting-edge study on numerous areas of quarantine history and simultaneously opens the door to new research.’Alex Chase-Levenson, University of Pennsylvania, Social History of Medicine, Volume 32, Issue 2, May 2019