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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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Main Author: McNeill, John Robert, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
Series:New approaches to the Americas
Subjects and Genres:
Fremder Feind
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.
Malaria > history
Yellow Fever > history
Culicidae > pathogenicity
Disease Outbreaks > history
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
History, Modern 1601-
Social Change > history
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Révolutions > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Fièvre jaune > Aspect de l'environnement > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Paludisme > Aspect de l'environnement > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Géographie médicale > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Paludisme > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Fièvre jaune > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 1500-
Epidemics.
Human ecology.
Malaria.
Malaria > Environmental aspects.
Medical geography.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Revolutions.
Social change.
Yellow fever.
Humanökologie.
Revolution
Gelbfieber
Ökologie > Krieg > Westindien > Geschichte Neuzeit.
Krieg > Ökologie > Westindien > Geschichte Neuzeit.
Caribbean Area > History.
Caribbean Region
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Caribbean Area.
Karibik
History.
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Table of 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.

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