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Author Varlik, Nükhet, author

Title Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world : the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600 / Nükhet Varlik
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Part I. Plague : History and Historiography -- 1. A natural history of plague -- 2. Plague in Ottomanist and non-Ottomanist historiography -- 3. The Black Death and its aftermath (1347-1453) -- Part II. Plague of Empire -- 4. The first phase (1453-1517) : plague comes from the West -- 5. The second phase (1517-70) : multiple plague trajectories -- 6. The third phase (1570-1600) : Istanbul as plague hub -- Part III. Empire of Plague -- 7. Plague transformed : changing perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes -- 8. The state of the plague : politics of bodies in the making of the Ottoman state -- Epilogue
Summary "This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-325 (and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 13, 2015)
Subject Plague -- Turkey -- Epidemiology -- History
Black Death -- Turkey -- History
Plague -- Environmental aspects -- Turkey -- History
Plague -- Social aspects -- Turkey -- History
Plague -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- History
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Turkey -- History
Plague -- history
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Black Death
Ecology
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Plague -- Epidemiology
Plague -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
Turkey -- Environmental conditions -- History
Turkey
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781316357828
1316357821
9781139004046
1139004042