"[The] book succeeds in bringing the Russian-Ottoman confrontation more fully into comparative world history . [It] is a solid work of scholarship and a welcome addition to Russian-Ottoman relations and the study of war, resettlement, and disease in modern history." -- H-Russia "Diving deep below the surface of well-known stories of military conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in and around the Black Sea, Andrew Robarts opens up new historical horizons to show how two of world history's most important empires formed each other through their attempts to manage both peoples and diseases on the move. Based on its own veritable sea of empirical evidence in half a dozen languages, this book's arguments will stand the test of time for imperial historians, comparativists, historians of medicine, and all those interested in the creation of the tools of modern statecraft." -- Alan Mikhail, Yale University, USA " Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region is an illuminative study, combining regional and imperial perspectives and offering a rich, complex, and dynamic picture of long lasting political issues and demographic processes. Building upon case studies and addressing important historical topics, this book offers a major contribution to our understanding of Eastern European history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." -- Alexei Kalionski, Sofia University, Bulgaria "Robarts has produced a truly excellent study covering the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and has supplied rich factual information while opening new intellectual vistas. I recommend it very strongly to all students of the Black Sea region.

" -- The Russian Review "An innovative and fundamental standard [of] work." -- Connections (Bloomsbury translation).