* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. J. R. McNeill’s book is by far the clearest, best informed, and scientifically accurate of the accounts available on this sugary conflict. '… this book offers a scholarly but well-written narrative and analysis of a crucial theme in Latin American and Caribbean history. 'Who would have guessed that the mosquito played such a vital role, shaping the fate of empires and revolutions, in such a vitally important part of the world?
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (New Approaches to the Americas) 1st Edition by J. R. Mcneill (Author) 4.2 out of 5 stars 26 ratings ''For most of the last five centuries, the Atlantic empires - European and North American - wrested, fought wars, and killed thousands of citizens and slaves for possession of the wealth swaying in the fields of the Caribbean islands and coastlines. It has changed the way I think about empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will challenge many readers’ assumptions about the limits of human agency in shaping great events.' 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.'J. It also left me more than a little envious: I wish I had written this book. The dominant factors in the long conflict, no matter what the protagonists claimed, were not political or religious or even economic but septic, that is, the microbes of yellow fever and malaria. 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. This data will be updated every 24 hours.You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches". This provocative book is an eye-opener, written with great verve and wit. Mosquito Empires is beautifully paced, well-researched, convincing, and important.
R. McNeill’s new book does more than exhibit his usual gifts - breadth of range, mastery of material, depth of insight, freedom of thought, clarity of expression.
''In this authoritative and engaging book, J. R. McNeill argues convincingly that disease played a pivotal role in many of the momentous events of Caribbean history. "J. R. McNeill's new book does more than exhibit his usual gifts - breadth of range, mastery of material, depth of insight, freedom of thought, clarity of expression. R. McNeil has written a book full of revelations that left me astounded and eager to assign it to my students. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (New Approaches to the Americas) Paperback – 18 Feb. 2010 by J. R. Mcneill (Author) 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings See all formats and editions 'Alfred W. Crosby - University of Texas, Austin'J. Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the History Department and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. The story of conquest, imperial contest and revolution in the Greater Caribbean is a well-trodden topic.
McNeill offers an ecological perspective on the geopolitical history of the Americas.
It has changed the way I think about empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will challenge many readers' assumptions about the limits of human agency in shaping great events." His books include The Mountains of the Mediterranean World (Cambridge University Press, 2003); Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (2000), co-winner of the World History Association book prize and the Forest History Society book prize and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize; and most recently The Human Web: A Bird-Eye View of World History (2003), co-authored with his father, William H. McNeill. 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. Mosquito Empires (New Approaches to the Americas) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition by McNeill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 4.2 out of 5 stars 26 ratings The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945. 'Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this book to your organisation's collection.Mark Harrison - Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of OxfordFull text views reflects the number of PDF downloads, PDFs sent to Google Drive, Dropbox and Kindle and HTML full text views for chapters in this book. J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the History Department and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. 'J. He has also published more than 40 scholarly articles in professional and scientific journals.
As the title suggests, it places considerable responsibility for the course of events upon mosquitoes (Aedes and Anopheles), those formidable vectors of … He shows how the region’s disease ecology changed following the advent of European colonization and how this served and then subverted the interests of the Caribbean’s oldest colonial powers.
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