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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McNeill, John Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:New approaches to the Americas.
Temas:
Human ecology > Caribbean Area > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Caribbean Area > History.
Revolutions > Caribbean Area > History.
Yellow fever > Environmental aspects > Caribbean Area > History.
Malaria > Environmental aspects > Caribbean Area > History.
Epidemics > Caribbean Area > History.
Medical geography > Caribbean Area > History.
Malaria > Caribbean Area > History.
Yellow fever > Caribbean Area > History.
Mosquitoes > Caribbean Area > pathogenicity.
Social change > Caribbean Area > History.
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
History, Modern 1601-
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Révolutions > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Fièvre jaune > Aspect de l'environnement > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Paludisme > Aspect de l'environnement > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Géographie médicale > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Paludisme > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Fièvre jaune > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 1500-
Épidémies > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
HISTORY > General.
Epidemics
Human ecology
Malaria
Malaria > Environmental aspects
Medical geography
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Revolutions
Social change
Yellow fever
Caribbean Area > History.
Caribbean Region
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Caribbean Area
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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