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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 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"--Provided by publisher.

History of Latin America --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean area --- Human ecology --- Nature --- Revolutions --- Yellow fever --- Malaria --- Epidemics --- Medical geography --- History. --- Effect of human beings on --- Environmental aspects --- Diseases --- Geographical distribution of diseases --- Geographical pathology --- Geography, Medical --- Geomedicine --- Medical topography --- Pathology, Geographic --- Topography, Medical --- Geography --- Medical climatology --- World health --- Disease outbreaks --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Ague --- Chills and fever --- Intermittent fever --- Malarial fever --- Fever --- Protozoan diseases --- Arbovirus infections --- Flaviviral diseases --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- History --- Political science --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Geographical distribution --- Outbreaks --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Pandemics --- Mosquitoes --- Social change --- pathogenicity. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Culicidae --- Mosquitos --- Diptera --- Arts and Humanities