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100	1		_aMcNeill, John Robert.
245	1	0	_aMosquito empires : _becology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620 - 1914 / _cJ.R. McNeill.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _cc2010.
300			_axviii, 371 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aNew approaches to the Americas
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-361) 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 Surinam 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	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. The argument: mosquito determinism and its limits; 2. Atlantic empires and Caribbean ecology; 3. Deadly fevers, deadly doctors; Part II. Imperial Mosquitoes: 4. From Recife to Kourou: yellow fever takes hold, 1620-1764; 5. Cartagena and Havana: yellow fever rampant; Part III. Revolutionary Mosquitoes: 6. Lord Cornwallis vs. anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780-1781; 7. Revolutionary fevers: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba, 1790-1898; 8. Epilogue: vector and virus vanquished.
651		0	_aCaribbean Area _xHistory.
650		0	_aHuman ecology _zCaribbean Area _xHistory.
650		0	_aNature _xEffect of human beings on _zCaribbean Area _xHistory.
650		0	_aRevolutions _zCaribbean Area _xHistory.
650		0	_aYellow fever _xEnvironmental aspects _zCaribbean Area _xHistory.
650		0	_aMalaria _xEnvironmental aspects _zCaribbean Area _xHistory.
650		0	_aEpidemics _zCaribbean Area _xHistory.
650		0	_aMedical geography _zCaribbean Area _xHistory.
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