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Also by Alison Bashford

The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (2016, with Joyce E. Chaplin)

Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (2014)

Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (2013, edited with David Armitage)

The Cambridge History of Australia (2013, edited with Stuart Macintyre)

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (2010, edited with Philippa Levine)

Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (2008, with Carolyn Strange)

Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the present (2006, Editor)

Imperial Hygiene: a Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health (2004)

Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (2003, edited with Carolyn Strange)

Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (2001, edited with Claire Hooker)

Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (1998)

Quarantine

Local and Global Histories

Edited by

ALISON BASHFORD

Selection of essays and editorial matter Alison Bashford 2016

Individual chapters their respective authors 2016

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First published 2016

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Contents

Alison Bashford

Jane Stevens Crawshaw

Alexander Chase-Levenson

Saurabh Mishra

Robert Peckham

Hans Pols

Nayan Shah

Barbara Brookes

Ryan McLane

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

Anne Clarke, Ursula K. Frederick, Peter Hobbins

Ingrid Sykes

Susan L. Burns

Gareth Hoskins

Mark Harrison

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

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Notes on Contributors

Alison Bashford is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, and fellow of Jesus College. Her most recent books are The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (2016, co-authored with Joyce E. Chaplin) and Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (2014). She co-edits the Cambridge Oceanic Histories series with David Armitage and Sujit Sivasundaram and is Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Barbara Brookes is professor of history at the University of Otago. Her research concentrates on the intersections between gender history and the history of medicine, including Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 18002000 (2015) with Tracy Penny Light and Wendy Mitchinson. Her most recent book is A History of New Zealand Women (2016).

Susan L. Burns is Associate Professor of Japanese History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her research currently focuses on the history of medicine and public health in early modern and modern Japan. She is the author of Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (2003) and the co-editor (with Barbara J. Brooks) of Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium (2003).

Alexander Chase-Levenson is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently working on a book manuscript about nineteenth-century Britains cultural, political and diplomatic engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system.

Anne (Annie) Clarke is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests and writing include the archaeology of cross-cultural interactions, practices of mark-making, community archaeology, heritage and interpretation, the archaeology of ethnographic museum collections and narratives in archaeology. Her most recent book is Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists (2015) co-edited with Steve Brown and Ursula Frederick.

Jane Stevens Crawshaw is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, Oxford Brookes University. Her research interests bridge the social, medical and environmental history of early modern Italy. Her first book was a study of quarantine in Renaissance Venice, Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice (2012).

Ursula K. Frederick is an artist and archaeologist based in Canberra, Australia. Her primary research interests include the production, reception and interpretation of visual and material cultures. Ursula has a background in Fine Arts, Archaeology, and Visual Arts; and she has published on a variety of topics including rock art, graffiti, photography automobilities and contemporary art. Ursula is currently a research associate on the Quarantine Project, University of Sydney.

Mark Harrison is Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and Professor of History at Oxford University. He has published widely on the history of disease and medicine, especially in relation to the history of war and imperialism from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, notably Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease (2012).

Peter Hobbins is a historian of science, technology and medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia. With editorial roles including the journals Health & History and Historical Records of Australian Science, his interests encompass medical research and non-humans in history. His first monograph, Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia, is forthcoming with Manchester University Press. Peter is currently exploring new horizons in aviation medicine, flight safety and the historical geography of airspace.

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