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 Suriname and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
New approaches to the Americas. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39743226*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
