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| ISBN: | 9780511811623
0511811624
9780511675348
0511675348
0511673361
9780511673368
9780511672095
0511672098
9780511669248
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9781283329415
9780521452861
0521452864
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0521459109
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: McNeill, John Robert. Mosquito empires. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521452861
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