[PDF.04eg] 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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 | #127645 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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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| but he makes a pretty persuasive case that both generals' strategies were made in ...|By William Page|The author does not pretend that Washington's strategy and the timely intervention of the French fleet were not instrumental in causing Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, but he makes a pretty persuasive case that both generals' strategies were made in the context of their awar| |"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...

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