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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Argument (and Its Limits) in Brief | |
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| The Argument | |
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| The Limits of the Argument | |
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| The Limits of the Novelty of the Argument | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| Atlantic Empires and Caribbean Ecology | |
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| Atlantic American Geopolitics, 1620-1820 | |
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| Ecological Transformation in the Caribbean, 1640-1750 | |
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| Yellow Fever and Caribbean Ecology | |
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| Yellow Fever Transmission and Immunity | |
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| Epidemic Yellow Fever and Plantation Sugar | |
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| Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Plantations of Sugar and Rice | |
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| Climate Change, El Ni�o, Mosquitoes, and Epidemics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Deadly Fevers, Deadly Doctors | |
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| Early Yellow Fever Epidemics and Their Victims | |
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| A Virulent Strain of Medicine | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Imperial Mosquitoes | |
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| Fevers Take Hold: From Recife to Kourou | |
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| The Dutch in Brazil, 1624-1654 | |
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| The English in Jamaica, 1655-1660 | |
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| The Scots at Darien, 1698-1699 | |
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| The French at Kourou, 1763-1764 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Yellow Fever Rampant and British Ambition Repulsed, 1690-1780 | |
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| Yellow Fever and the Defense of the Spanish Empire | |
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| The Deadly 1690s | |
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| Siege Ecology at Cartagena, 1741 | |
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| The Seven Years' War and the Siege Ecology of Havana, 1762 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Revolutionary Mosquitoes | |
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| Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles quadrimaculatus, 1780-1781 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Slave Risings and Surinam's Maroons | |
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| Revolution and Malaria in the Southern Colonies | |
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| Yorktown | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Revolutionary Fevers, 1790-1898; Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba | |
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| St. Domingue, 1790-1804 | |
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| New Granada, 1815-1820 | |
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| Immigration, Warfare, and Independence, 1830-1898: Mexico, the United States, and Cuba | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion: Vector and Virus Vanquished, 1880-1914 | |
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| The Argument Recapitulated | |
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| Vector and Virus Vanquished | |
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| Disease and Power | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |