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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 Suriname and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | New approaches to the Americas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 371 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511811623 0511811624 9780511675348 0511675348 0511673361 9780511673368 9780511672095 0511672098 9780511669248 0511669240 9780511849978 0511849974 1283329417 9781283329415 |