How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine
practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade. In the late nineteenth …

ThIS IS A historic moment for plague historians and scientists. At pre sent, a growing
consensus in the international scholarly community iden tifies the Black Death as a …

Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation
of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and …

This article examines Block A, the first block-style building in Heybeliada Sanatorium in
Istanbul. The purpose of this research is to understand its architectural and spatial …

Although the general course, possible transmission routes, and actual sociodemographic
destruction of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the Western world are well documented, the …

This paper addresses two main questions in regards to the devshirme system: how did the
devshirme system function at a local level and how were local politics triggered by the levy; …

How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the
development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague …

Tarih boyunca milyonlarca insanın ölümüne neden olan veba salgınları on sekizinci yüzyılın
başlarından itibaren Batı Avrupa için bir sorun olmaktan çıksa da ticaret yollarının üzerinde …

Turkey has played a prominent role for the Western World in the prevention of disease from
two different angles. The first is the İstanbul connection from where the variolation …

This article presents an analysis of the first recognisably modern-style death registers in the
Ottoman Empire. These were produced, in 1838–9, as a result of the state's reaction to the …