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A history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century
The English System
Quarantine, Immigration and the Making of a Port Sanitary Zone
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2014
Summary
The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. During the later nineteenth century, British public health officials transformed the medieval quarantine system into a novel ‘English System’ of surveillance to control the introduction of infectious disease. This removed the much maligned hindrances of quarantine to high-speed international commerce and for maritime traf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719089657 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719089654 |
| Author: | Krista Maglen |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Imprint: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Krista Maglen
Krista Maglen is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington
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