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_bM2337
100 1 _aMcNeill, John Robert.
245 1 0 _aMosquito empires: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620 - 1914
260 _aNew York
_bCambridge University Press
_c2010
300 _axviii, 371 p.
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
365 _e21.99
490 0 _aNew approaches to the Americas
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-361) and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. The argument: mosquito determinism and its limits; 2. Atlantic empires and Caribbean ecology; 3. Deadly fevers, deadly doctors; Part II. Imperial Mosquitoes: 4. From Recife to Kourou: yellow fever takes hold, 1620-1764; 5. Cartagena and Havana: yellow fever rampant; Part III. Revolutionary Mosquitoes: 6. Lord Cornwallis vs. anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780-1781; 7. Revolutionary fevers: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba, 1790-1898; 8. Epilogue: vector and virus vanquished.
520 _a"This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam 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.
650 0 _aHuman ecology
_zCaribbean Area
_xHistory.
650 0 _aNature
_xEffect of human beings on
_zCaribbean Area
_xHistory.
650 0 _aRevolutions
_zCaribbean Area
_xHistory.
650 0 _aYellow fever
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zCaribbean Area
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMalaria
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zCaribbean Area
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEpidemics
_zCaribbean Area
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMedical geography
_zCaribbean Area
_xHistory.
651 0 _aCaribbean Area
_xHistory.
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31143
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35121
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35713
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36029
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955 _bxj12 2009-09-08
_cxj12 2009-09-08 ONIX (telework)
_axe05 2010-03-29 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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