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Mosquito Empires (McNeill, J. R.)
Mosquito Empires
Untertitel Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
Autor McNeill, J. R.
Verlag Cambridge Academic
Co-Verlag Cambridge University Press (Imprint/Brand)
Sprache Englisch
Einband Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
Artikelnummer 9832846
ISBN 978-0-521-45286-1
Reihe New Approaches to the Americas
CHF 140.80
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Zusammenfassung
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries.
J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the History Department and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. 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's-Eye View of World History (2003), co-authored with his father, William H. McNeill. He has also published more than 40 scholarly articles in professional and scientific journals.