Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 371 pages) : maps. |
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polychrome |
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New approaches to the Americas
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New approaches to the Americas.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index. |
Summary |
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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Caribbean Area -- History.
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Caribbean Area. |
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History. |
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Human ecology -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Revolutions -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Revolutions. |
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Yellow fever -- Environmental aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Yellow fever. |
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Malaria -- Environmental aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Malaria -- Environmental aspects. |
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Malaria. |
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Epidemics -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Epidemics. |
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Medical geography -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Medical geography. |
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Malaria -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Yellow fever -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Mosquitoes -- Caribbean Area -- pathogenicity.
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Mosquitoes. |
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Social change -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Social change. |
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Caribbean Region. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: McNeill, John Robert. Mosquito empires. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521452861 (DLC) 2009037299 (OCoLC)436358468 |
ISBN |
9780511811623 (electronic book) |
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0511811624 (electronic book) |
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9780511675348 |
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0511675348 |
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0511673361 |
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9780511673368 |
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9780511672095 |
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0511672098 |
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9780511669248 |
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0511669240 |
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9780511849978 |
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0511849974 |
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1283329417 |
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9781283329415 |
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9780521452861 |
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0521452864 |
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9780521459105 |
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0521459109 |
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