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Mosquito empires : ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620 - 1914 /
"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...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | New approaches to the Americas
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| 100 | 1 | |a McNeill, John Robert |9 409961 |e autor | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Mosquito empires : |b ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620 - 1914 / |c J.R. McNeill. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2010. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2010. | |
| 300 | |a xviii, 371 páginas : |b ilustraciones ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 336 | |a texto |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a sin mediación |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volumen |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a New approaches to the Americas | |
| 504 | |a Incluye bibliografía (páginas 315-361) e índice. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a Machine 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. | |
| 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. | ||
| 650 | 4 | |a Ecología humana |9 4163 |z Caribe, Región |x Historia. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Hombres |9 355690 |x Influencia del medio ambiente |z Caribe, Región |x Historia. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Revoluciones |9 358264 |z Caribe, Región |x Historia | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Fiebre amarilla |9 354977 |x Aspectos ambientales |z Caribe, Región |x Historia. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Malaria |x Aspectos ambientales |z Caribe, Región |x Historia. |9 3757 | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Epidemias |9 354978 |z Caribe, Región |x Historia. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Geografía médica |9 355533 |z Caribe, Región |x Historia. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Caribe, Región |x Historia. |9 1347 | |
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