[PDF.39ig] Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (New Approaches to the Americas)

Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (New Approaches to the Americas)

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 | #601084 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2010-01-11 |  2010-02-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.87 x5.98l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 390 pages

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||17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Clear, dryly witty overview of a little-known history|By ccmann|I know the author slightly, so readers may want to take this recommendation with the proverbial grain of salt. But I thought this book was terrific -- full of interesting ideas and things I didn't know about, all written in wonderfully clear prose. This story, the product of 20 years of research, tells how malari| |"Brilliant. Ranging freely across the 'Greater Caribbean' ... McNeill makes a riveting case that the primary driver in the colonial conflicts there was not political or economic but microbiological." |Charles C. Mann, Wall Street Journal

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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 surv...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (New Approaches to the Americas)   |  J. R. McNeill.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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