Maritime quarantine : the British experience, c.1650-1900 / John Booker.

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

xviii, 624 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The seventeenth century -- Menace from the Baltic: policy and procedure -- Menace from the Baltic: mercantile worries -- The French infection -- Meddling in the Mediterranean -- Messina and the aftermath -- Elusive aspirations -- Foul-bill dilemma -- Painful progress -- Kentish fiasco -- Malta: war, peace and plague -- The disbelievers -- Mediterranean misery -- Countdown to cholera -- Trying to confer -- A stubborn demise.