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Mosquito Empires Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean 1620 1914 1st Edition by JR Mcneill ISBN 0521459109 9780521459105

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Author(s): McNeill, J. R.
ISBN(s): 9780521459105, 0521459109
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.79 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521459109 
ISBN 13: 9780521459105
Author: JR Mcneill

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.

Mosquito Empires Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean 1620 1914 1st Table of contents:

1 The Argument (and Its Limits) in Brief
The Argument
The Limits of the Argument
The Limits of the Novelty of the Argument
PART I. SETTING THE SCENE
2 Atlantic Empires and Caribbean Ecology
Atlantic American Geopolitics, 1620–1820
Ecological Transformation in the Caribbean, 1640–1750
Yellow Fever and Caribbean Ecology
Yellow Fever Transmission and Immunity
Epidemic Yellow Fever and Plantation Sugar
Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Plantations of Sugar and Rice
Climate Change, El Niño, Mosquitoes, and Epidemics
Conclusion
3 Deadly Fevers, Deadly Doctors
Early Yellow Fever Epidemics and Their Victims
A Virulent Strain of Medicine
Conclusion
PART II. IMPERIAL MOSQUITOES
4 Fevers Take Hold: From Recife to Kourou
The Dutch in Brazil, 1624–1654
The English in Jamaica, 1655–1660
The Scots at Darien, 1698–1699
The French at Kourou, 1763–1764
Conclusion
5 Yellow Fever Rampant and British Ambition Repulsed, 1690–1780
Yellow Fever and the Defense of the Spanish Empire
The Deadly 1690s
Siege Ecology at Cartagena, 1741
The Seven Years’ War and the Siege Ecology of Havana, 1762
Conclusion
PART III. REVOLUTIONARY MOSQUITOES
6 Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780–1781
Introduction
Slave Risings and Surinam’s Maroons
Revolution and Malaria in the Southern Colonies
Yorktown
Conclusion
7 Revolutionary Fevers, 1790–1898: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba
St. Domingue, 1790–1804
New Granada, 1815–1820
Immigration, Warfare, and Independence, 1830–1898: Mexico, the United States, and Cuba
Conclusion
8 Conclusion: Vector and Virus Vanquished, 1880–1914
The Argument Recapitulated
Vector and Virus Vanquished
Disease and Power

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