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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914

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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 - McNeill, J. R.
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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 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 ...

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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 2010, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521459105

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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 2010, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521452861

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