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245 10 a| Mosquito empires :b| ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 /c| J.R. McNeill.;

260 a| New York :b| Cambridge University Press,c| 2010.;

300 a| xviii, 371 pages :b| maps ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| New approaches to the Americas;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "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. 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.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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Mosquito empires : ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 / J.R. McNeill.

Author/creator	McNeill, John Robert
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description	xviii, 371 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects	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. Caribbean Area--History.

Series	New approaches to the Americas New approaches to the Americas. ^A397334
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.
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. 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2009037299
ISBN	9780521452861 (hardback)
ISBN	0521452864 (hardback)
ISBN	9780521459105 (pbk.)
ISBN	0521459109 (pbk.)

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