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.
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. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. 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.
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字里行间,感觉McNeill 是一个蛮风趣的教授。“I was then a twenty-five year-old graduate student researching a dissertation, trying to live on $125 a month, lonely and often cold and hungry...”
评分第二部分开始会有读不下去的感觉,虽然是环境史,仍然是在回答17-18世界帝国主义海外扩张和19、20世纪拉美第三世界的革命和独立。另外,只有15张手绘地图却没有一张图片,这个对想象力要求有点高啊。
评分说蚊子是美国国母简直让人莞尔
评分纸本书到手。感觉就是比电子版和打印版要舒服。。重读中。
评分纸本书到手。感觉就是比电子版和打印版要舒服。。重读中。
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