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020			_a9780511811623 (ebook)
020			_z9780521452861 (hardback)
020			_z9780521459105 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
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100	1		_aMcNeill, J. R., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMosquito Empires : _bEcology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 / _cJ. R. McNeill.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (390 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aNew Approaches to the Americas
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis 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 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. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521452861
830		0	_aNew Approaches to the Americas.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811623
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38260 _d38260