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Mosquito empires : ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 / J.R. McNeill.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks F 1621 .M38 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeill, John Robert, author.
- Series:
- New approaches to the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean Area--History.
- Caribbean Area.
- Human ecology--Caribbean Area--History.
- Human ecology.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Caribbean Area--History.
- Nature.
- Revolutions--Caribbean Area--History.
- Revolutions.
- Yellow fever--Environmental aspects--Caribbean Area--History.
- Yellow fever.
- Malaria--Environmental aspects--Caribbean Area--History.
- Malaria.
- Epidemics--Caribbean Area--History.
- Epidemics.
- Medical geography--Caribbean Area--History.
- Medical geography.
- Malaria--Caribbean Area--History.
- Yellow fever--Caribbean Area--History.
- Mosquitoes--Caribbean Area--pathogenicity.
- Mosquitoes.
- Social change--Caribbean Area--History.
- Social change.
- Malaria--history.
- Yellow Fever--history.
- Culicidae--pathogenicity.
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Social Change--history.
- Caribbean Region.
- Malaria--Environmental aspects.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Medical Subjects:
- Malaria--history.
- Yellow Fever--history.
- Culicidae--pathogenicity.
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Social Change--history.
- Caribbean Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 371 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- List of maps
- List of abbreviations used in the footnotes
- Preface
- The argument (and its limits) in brief
- Atlantic empires and Caribbean ecology
- Deadly fevers, deadly doctors
- Fevers take hold: from Recife to Kourou
- Yellow fever rampant and British ambition repulsed, 1690-1780
- Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780-1781
- Revolutionary fevers, 1790-1898: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba
- Conclusion: vector and virus vanquished, 1880-1914.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521452861
- 0521452864
- 9780521459105
- 0521459109
- 9780511675348
- 0511675348
- OCLC:
- 436358468
- Online:
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