Title:
Mosquito empires : ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 / J.R. McNeill.
Author:
McNeill, John Robert, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
©2010
Call Number:
F1621 .M38 2010
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
ACLS Humanities E-Book http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.30497Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31143
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35121
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35713
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36029
ISBN:
9780521459105
9780521452861
9780511675348
Series:
New approaches to the Americas
New approaches to the Americas.
Physical Description:
xviii, 371 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
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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 quadrimaculatus, 1780-1781 -- Revolutionary fevers, 1790-1898: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba -- Conclusion: vector and virus vanquished, 1880-1914.
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