A Plague On Both Houses Population Movements And The Spread Of Disease Across The Ottoman Russian Black Sea Frontier 1768 1830s

Download or read book A Plague on Both Houses?: Population Movements and the Spread of Disease Across the Ottoman-Russian Black Sea Frontier, 1768-1830s written by Andrew Robarts and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon world-historical methodology, this dissertation adopts a regional framework to balance the prevailing historiography of Ottoman-Russian antagonism and conflict in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While not discounting geo-strategic and ideological confrontation between the Ottoman and Russian Empires, this dissertation emphasizes the "transnational" character of Ottoman-Russian relations in the Black Sea region in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. On the issues of migration management and disease control, Ottoman and Russian officials - at the imperial, provincial, and local levels - communicated about and coordinated their response to surges in population movements and the mutual threat posed by the spread of epidemic disease across the Ottoman-Russian Black Sea frontier.