Sulphuric Utopias A History of Maritime Fumigation

• Main Author: Engelmann, Lukas (auth)
• Other Authors: Lynteris, Christos (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Series: Inside Technology
• Subjects: History of science; Maritime history; quarantine; shipping; disinfection; plague; yellow fever; disease; cholera; hygiene; syphilis
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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