Quarantine

Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She was formerly Whitlam and Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, USA, where she taught the history of global health. She currently holds positions on many scholarly and publishing advisory boards in the UK, the US and Australia. Her many books have brought together medical history, world history and environmental history.

• 1. Maritime Quarantine: Linking Old World and New World Histories; Alison BashfordPART I: QUARANTINE HISTORIES IN TIME AND PLACE2. The Places and Spaces of Early Modern Quarantine; Jane Stevens Crawshaw3. Early Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Quarantine as a European System; Alexander Chase-Levenson4. Incarceration and Resistance in a Red Sea Lazaretto, 1880-1930; Saurabh Mishra5. Spaces of Quarantine in Colonial Hong Kong; Robert Peckham6. Quarantine in the Dutch East Indies; Hans Pols7. The Empire of Medical Investigation on Angel Island, California; Nayan Shah8. Quarantine for Venereal Disease: New Zealand, 1915-18; Barbara Brookes9. Influenza and Quarantine in Samoa; John Ryan McLane10. Yellow Fever, Quarantine and the Jet Age in India: Extremely Far, Incredibly Close; Kavita SivaramakrishnanPART II: HERITAGE: MEMORIALISING LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE11. Sydney's Landscapes of Quarantine; Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick and Peter Hobbins12. Sana Ducos: the Last Leprosarium in New Caledonia; Ingrid Sykes13. History, Testimony, and the Afterlife of Quarantine: The National Hansen's Disease Museum of Japan; Susan L. Burns14. Citizenship and Quarantine at Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Seduction of Interruption; Gareth HoskinsAfterword; Mark HarrisonNotesIndex.

This volume presents readers with a multiplicity of sites and measures implicated by quarantine policies in settings as diverse as the East, South and Southeast Asian regions, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds … Readers will find in this rich volume a wealth of valuable materials and insights that will surely inspire others to continue to listen to these voices.