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List of Maps | p. xi |
List of Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
The Argument (and Its Limits) in Brief | p. 1 |
The Argument | p. 2 |
The Limits of the Argument | p. 5 |
The Limits of the Novelty of the Argument | p. 8 |
Setting the Scene | |
Atlantic Empires and Caribbean Ecology | p. 15 |
Atlantic American Geopolitics, 1620-1820 | p. 15 |
Ecological Transformation in the Caribbean, 1640-1750 | p. 22 |
Yellow Fever and Caribbean Ecology | p. 32 |
Yellow Fever Transmission and Immunity | p. 40 |
Epidemic Yellow Fever and Plantation Sugar | p. 47 |
Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Plantations of Sugar and Rice | p. 52 |
Climate Change, El Niño, Mosquitoes, and Epidemics | p. 58 |
Conclusion | p. 60 |
Deadly Fevers, Deadly Doctors | p. 63 |
Early Yellow Fever Epidemics and Their Victims | p. 64 |
A Virulent Strain of Medicine | p. 68 |
Conclusion | p. 86 |
Imperial Mosquitoes | |
Fevers Take Hold: From Recife to Kourou | p. 91 |
The Dutch in Brazil, 1624-1654 | p. 92 |
The English in Jamaica, 1655-1660 | p. 97 |
The Scots at Darien, 1698-1699 | p. 105 |
The French at Kourou, 1763-1764 | p. 123 |
Conclusion | p. 135 |
Yellow Fever Rampant and British Ambition Repulsed, 1690-1780 | p. 137 |
Yellow Fever and the Defense of the Spanish Empire | p. 137 |
The Deadly 1690s | p. 144 |
Siege Ecology at Cartagena, 1741 | p. 149 |
The Seven Years' War and the Siege Ecology of Havana, 1762 | p. 169 |
Conclusion | p. 188 |
Revolutionary Mosquitoes | |
Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780-1781 | p. 195 |
Introduction | p. 195 |
Slave Risings and Surinam's Maroons | p. 195 |
Revolution and Malaria in the Southern Colonies | p. 198 |
Yorktown | p. 220 |
Conclusion | p. 232 |
Revolutionary Fevers, 1790-1898; Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba | p. 235 |
St. Domingue, 1790-1804 | p. 236 |
New Granada, 1815-1820 | p. 267 |
Immigration, Warfare, and Independence, 1830-1898: Mexico, the United States, and Cuba | p. 287 |
Conclusion | p. 303 |
Conclusion: Vector and Virus Vanquished, 1880-1914 | p. 304 |
The Argument Recapitulated | p. 304 |
Vector and Virus Vanquished | p. 306 |
Disease and Power | p. 312 |
Bibliography | p. 315 |
Index | p. 363 |
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