Mosquito Empires is indispensable to any student of Caribbean history or the history of disease.

"J. R. McNeill's new book does more than exhibit his usual gifts - breadth of range, mastery of material, depth of insight, freedom of thought, clarity of expression. 'Usage data cannot currently be displayed.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. J. R. McNeill’s book is by far the clearest, best informed, and scientifically accurate of the accounts available on this sugary conflict. It has changed the way I think about empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will challenge many readers' assumptions about the limits of human agency in shaping great events." 'Alfred W. Crosby - University of Texas, Austin'J. Henceforth, histories of empire, warfare, and international relations that neglect the environmental context of the events they recount will be seriously deficient. ''In this authoritative and engaging book, J. R. McNeill argues convincingly that disease played a pivotal role in many of the momentous events of Caribbean history. McNeill, J.R., Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean 1620-1914, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 Topic: J.R. McNeil’s work Mosquito Empires gives seat to ecology as an actor on the geopolitical stage and observes how climate change and other environmental factors create an action/reaction observing how it can promote or hamper desirability, personal interest, or … R. McNeil has written a book full of revelations that left me astounded and eager to assign it to my students. R. McNeill’s new book does more than exhibit his usual gifts - breadth of range, mastery of material, depth of insight, freedom of thought, clarity of expression. Mosquito Empires is a book that spans nearly three centuries and the histories of many peoples, nations, and empires in the American tropical world. Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. 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.'J. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (New Approaches to the Americas) 1st Edition by J. R. Mcneill (Author) 4.2 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

'… this book offers a scholarly but well-written narrative and analysis of a crucial theme in Latin American and Caribbean history. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945. 'Felipe Fernandez-Armesto - University of Notre DameNote you can select to send to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations.‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be sent to your device when it is connected to wi-fi.‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. He shows how the region’s disease ecology changed following the advent of European colonization and how this served and then subverted the interests of the Caribbean’s oldest colonial powers.

McNeill offers an ecological perspective on the geopolitical history of the Americas. ''For most of the last five centuries, the Atlantic empires - European and North American - wrested, fought wars, and killed thousands of citizens and slaves for possession of the wealth swaying in the fields of the Caribbean islands and coastlines.
The story of conquest, imperial contest and revolution in the Greater Caribbean is a well-trodden topic. • With Peter Engelke. It has changed the way I think about empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will challenge many readers’ assumptions about the limits of human agency in shaping great events. The dominant factors in the long conflict, no matter what the protagonists claimed, were not political or religious or even economic but septic, that is, the microbes of yellow fever and malaria. 'Drawing on an enormous documentary source base, culled from many archives and texts in several languages, and ranging effortlessly across military history and medical science, J. R. McNeill's book is a major achievement. 'Who would have guessed that the mosquito played such a vital role, shaping the fate of empires and revolutions, in such a vitally important part of the world? This data will be updated every 24 hours.You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches". 'J.
It also left me more than a little envious: I wish I had written this book. R. McNeill’s new book does more than exhibit his usual gifts - breadth of range, mastery of material, depth of insight, freedom of thought, clarity of expression.

J. R. McNeill is University Professor in the History Department and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. It has changed the way I think about empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will challenge many readers’ assumptions about the limits of human agency in shaping great events.'

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