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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 豆 8.3分
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作者:J. R. McNeill
出版社:Cambridge University Press
出版日期:2010-01
ISBN:9780521459105
文件格式: pdf
标签: 环境史 医疗史 历史 history 衛生史 英文版 生态史 环境
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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 sys...
目录
Part I. Setting the Scene:
1. The argument: mosquito determinism and its limits
2. Atlantic empires and Caribbean ecology
3. Deadly fevers, deadly doctors
Part II. Imperial Mosquitoes:
4. From Recife to Kourou: yellow fever takes hold, 1620–1764
5. Cartagena and Havana: yellow fever rampant
Part III. Revolutionary Mosquitoes:
6. Lord Cornwallis vs anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780–1
7. Revolutionary fevers: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba, 1790–1898
8. Epilogue: vector and virus vanquished.
1. The argument: mosquito determinism and its limits
2. Atlantic empires and Caribbean ecology
3. Deadly fevers, deadly doctors
Part II. Imperial Mosquitoes:
4. From Recife to Kourou: yellow fever takes hold, 1620–1764
5. Cartagena and Havana: yellow fever rampant
Part III. Revolutionary Mosquitoes:
6. Lord Cornwallis vs anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780–1
7. Revolutionary fevers: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba, 1790–1898
8. Epilogue: vector and virus vanquished.