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The mosquito : a human history of our deadliest predator / Timothy C. Winegard.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating QL536 .W56 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winegard, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles), 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mosquitoes--Ecology--History.
- Mosquitoes.
- Human ecology.
- Mosquitoes--Ecology.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, this text shows how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Toxic twins : the mosquito and her diseases
- Survival of the fittest : fever demons, footballs, and sickle cell safeties
- General Anopheles : from Athens to Alexander
- Mosquito legions : the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
- Unrepentant mosquitoes : a crisis of faiths and the Crusades
- Mosquito hordes : Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
- The Columbian exchange : mosquitoes and the global village
- Accidental conquerors : African slavery and the mosquito's annexation of the Americas
- The seasoning : mosquito landscapes, mythology, and the seeds of America
- Rogues in a nation : the mosquito and the creation of Greater Britain
- The crucible of disease : colonial wars and a new world order
- Unalienable bites : the American Revolution
- Mercenary mosquitoes : wars of liberation and the making of the Americas
- Mosquitoes of Manifest Destiny : cotton, slavery, Mexico, and the American South
- Sinister angels of our nature : the American Civil War
- Unmasking the mosquito : disease and imperialism
- This is Ann : she's dying to meet you : the Second World War, Dr. Seuss, and DDT
- Silent springs and superbugs : the mosquito renaissance
- The modern mosquito and her diseases : at the gates of extinction
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-461) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781524743413
- 1524743410
- OCLC:
- 1083228616
- Publisher Number:
- 99981491900
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