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Mosquito empires: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
John Robert McNeill
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"This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Suriname and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them"--Provided by publisher.
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Frontmatter
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List of Maps (page xi)
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List of Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes (page xiii)
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Preface (page xv)
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Acknowledgments (page xvii)
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1 The Argument (and Its Limits) in Brief (page 1)
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PART I. SETTING THE SCENE
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2 Atlantic Empires and Caribbean Ecology (page 15)
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3 Deadly Fevers, Deadly Doctors (page 63)
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PART II. IMPERIAL MOSQUITOES
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4 Fevers Take Hold: From Recife to Kourou (page 91)
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5 Yellow Fever Rampant and British Ambition Repulsed, 1690-1780 (page 137)
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PART III. REVOLUTIONARY MOSQUITOES
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6 Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780-1781 (page 195)
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7 Revolutionary Fevers, 1790-1898: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba (page 235)
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8 Conclusion: Vector and Virus Vanquished, 1880-1914 (page 304)
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Bibliography (page 315)
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Index (page 363)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JWH | 22.4 (Dec. 2011): 840-844 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world_history/v022/22.4.warsh.html |
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Published: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780511670022 (ebook)
- 9780521452861 (hardcover)
- 9780521459105 (paper)