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AI InsightIt records 19th century western travellers often deliberate disregard for non-western quarantinemeasures in the Ottoman Sultanate, the employment of quarantine-style settlements in western coloniesforming an integral part of western apartheid and racist systems and, the use of disease, quarantine andthe absence of quarantine measures, as weapons employed by the western powers against the other ,being the rest of the worlds populations, as a part of the process and practice of western colonisation andimperialism.
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Abstract
This paper employs examples of 19th century travel literature and other sources to explore thenature of the system of western general quarantine which began in the 15th century and continued into the20th century. It records 19th century western travellers often deliberate disregard for non-western quarantinemeasures in the Ottoman Sultanate, the employment of quarantine-style settlements in western coloniesforming an integral part of western apartheid and racist systems and, the use of disease, quarantine andthe absence of quarantine measures, as weapons employed by the western powers against the other ,being the rest of the worlds populations, as a part of the process and practice of western colonisation andimperialism.
Özet
Bu makale 19. yüzyıl seyahat edebiyatından ve diğer örneklerden yararlanarak 15. yüzyılda başlayanve 20. yüzyıla kadar devam eden batıya özgü karantina kavramını irdelemektedir. Çalışma, OsmanlıSultanlığına özgü karantina deneyimini dışlayan 19. yüzyılda batılı seyyahlarının kaleminden karantinaya alınmış bölge ve insanları, ırkçı ve ayrımcı sistemin parçaları olan kolonileri, salgın hastalıkları, ötekine karşı kullanılan silahları ele almakta ve bütün bunların batılı koloniciliğin ve emperyalizmin dünyanüfusları üzerindeki etkisini ortaya koymaktadır.