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Mosquito empires : ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | New approaches to the Americas
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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. |
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xviii, 371 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index. |
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9780521452861 0521452864 9780521459105 0521459109 9780511675348 0511675348 |