This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean.

Introduction: Mediterranean quarantine disclosed: space, identity and power - John Chircop and Francisco Javier MartínezPart I: Space1 Quarantine and territory in Spain during the second half of the nineteenth century - Quim Bonastra2 Cholera epidemics, local politics and nationalism in the province of Nice during the first half of the nineteenth century - Dominique Bon3 Mending 'Moors' in Mogador: Hajj, cholera and Spanish-Moroccan regeneration, 1890-99 - Francisco Javier MartínezPart II: Identity4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî - Malika Ezzahidi5 Policing boundaries: quarantine and professional identity in mid-nineteenth-century BritainLisa Rosner6 Prevention and stigma: the sanitary control of Muslim pilgrims from the Balkans, 1830-1914 - Christian Promitzer7 Contagion controversies on cholera and yellow fever in mid-nineteenth-century Spain: the case of Nicasio Landa - Jon Arrizabalaga and Juan Carlos García-ReyesPart III: Power8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the 'contagious Arab' in the Mediterranean, 1830s-1900 - John Chircop9 Epidemics, quarantine and state control in Portugal, 1750-1805 - Laurinda Abreu10 Quarantine and British "protection" of the Ionian Islands, 1815-64 - Costas Tsiamis, Eleni Thalassinou, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou and Angelos Hatzakis11 Inland sanitary cordons and liberal administration in southern Europe: Mallorca (Balearic Islands), 1820-70 - Joana Maria Pujades-Mora and Pere Salas-VivesIndex