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New Approaches to the Americas: Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 by Professor J. R. McNeill Details

This book explores the links between environment, disease and international politics in the context of the Great Caribbean - the landscape between Suriname and Chesapeake - in the 17th century…

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This book explores the links between environment, disease and international politics in the context of the Great Caribbean - the landscape between Suriname and Chesapeake - in the 17th century until the early 20th century. Environmental changes have made these landscapes particularly suitable for carrier mosquitoes for yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases have led to systematic devastation between armies and potential settlers.

Because yellow fever gives immunity to survivors of the disease, and because malaria gives resistance, these diseases play partisan roles in the struggle for empire and revolution, where some people attack more sharply than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, helping to preserve the Spanish Spanish Empire against the predatory competitors of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

In the late eighteenth century and during the nineteenth century, these diseases helped the success of the revolutions by eliminating the forces sent from Europe to prevent them.



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