Mosquito Empires
Subtitle: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780521452861
Table of contents: title: The argument (and its limits) in brief; title: Atlantic empires and Caribbean ecology; title: Deadly fevers, deadly doctors; title: Fevers take hold: from Recife to Kourou; title: Yellow fever rampant and British ambition repulsed, 1690-1780; title: Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles quadrimaculattus, 1780-1781; title: Revolutionary fevers, 1790-1898: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba; title: Conclusion: vector and virus vanquished, 1880-1914