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949002
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b703372
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McNeill, John Robert.
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Mosquito empires : : ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 /\ J.R. McNeill.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2010.
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| Series Statement
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New approaches to the Americas
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1 online resource (xviii, 371 pages) :: maps
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| ISBN
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0511669240
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: 9780511673368
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: 9780511849978
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0521452864
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0521459109
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9780521452861
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9780521459105
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Epidemics-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Human ecology-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Malaria-- Environmental aspects-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Malaria-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Medical geography-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Mosquitoes-- Caribbean Area-- pathogenicity.
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Nature-- Effect of human beings on-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Revolutions-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Social change-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Yellow fever-- Environmental aspects-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Yellow fever-- Caribbean Area-- History.
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Epidemics.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Human ecology.
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Malaria-- Environmental aspects.
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Malaria.
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Medical geography.
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Nature-- Effect of human beings on.
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Revolutions.
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Social change.
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Yellow fever.
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Ecological and Environmental Phenomena.
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History, Modern 1601-.
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Caribbean Area, History.
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Caribbean Region.
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Caribbean Area.
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| Dewey Classification
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972.9
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| LC Classification
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F1621.M38 2010eb
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| NLM classification
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2010 C-686
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WC 532M478m 2010
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