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Author McNeill, John Robert

Title Mosquito empires : ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 / J.R. McNeill
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 371 pages) : maps
Series New approaches to the Americas
New approaches to the Americas.
Contents 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 quadrimaculattus, 1780-1781 -- Revolutionary fevers, 1790-1898: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba -- Conclusion: vector and virus vanquished, 1880-1914
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human ecology -- Caribbean Area -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Caribbean Area -- History
Revolutions -- Caribbean Area -- History
Yellow fever -- Environmental aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History
Malaria -- Environmental aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History
Epidemics -- Caribbean Area -- History
Medical geography -- Caribbean Area -- History
Malaria -- Caribbean Area -- History
Yellow fever -- Caribbean Area -- History
Mosquitoes -- Caribbean Area -- pathogenicity
Social change -- Caribbean Area -- History
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
History, Modern 1601-
HISTORY -- General.
Epidemics
Human ecology
Malaria
Malaria -- Environmental aspects
Medical geography
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Revolutions
Social change
Yellow fever
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001300
Caribbean Region
Subject Caribbean Area
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009037299
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