Mosquito Empires : Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (Hardcover)

Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. The argument: mosquito determinism and its limits; 2. Atlantic empires and Caribbean ecology; 3. Deadly fevers, deadly doctors; Part II. Imperial Mosquitoes: 4. From Recife to Kourou: yellow fever takes hold, 1620?1764; 5. Cartagena and Havana: yellow fever rampant; Part III. Revolutionary Mosquitoes: 6. Lord Cornwallis vs anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780?1; 7. Revolutionary fevers: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba, 1790?1898; 8. Epilogue: vector and virus vanquished.