From Crisis Management towards a Mediterranean Model? Maritime Quarantine in the Austrian Netherlands, c. 1720-1795 ; Van crisisbeheer naar een mediterraans model? Maritieme quarantaine in de Oostenrijkse Nederlanden, 1720-1795: Maritime Quarantine in the Austrian Netherlands, c. 1720-1795

Most historians agree that quarantine practices in the Mediterranean Sea played a pivotal role in the disappearance of plague from Western Europe. Although maritime quarantine originated in the Middle Ages, its importance increased during the seventeenth and eighteenth century when centralising states, guided by ‘populationist’ ideas of statecraft doctrines like mercantilism, began to develop and enforce isolation periods more elaborately. While extensive scholarship has explored maritime quarantine in Mediterranean port cities, little attention has been paid to the harbours of northwestern Eu... Mehr ...