The mosquito : a human history of our deadliest predator
Record details
- ISBN: 1524743410
- ISBN: 9781524743413
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Physical Description:
x, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-461) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Toxic twins: The mosquito and her diseases -- Survival of the fittest: Fever demons, footballs, and sickle cell safeties -- General Anopheles: From Athens to Alexander -- Mosquito legions: The rise and fall of the Roman Empire -- Unrepentant mosquitoes: A crisis of faiths and the Crusades -- Mosquito hordes: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire -- The Columbian exchange: Mosquitoes and the global village -- Accidental conquerors: African slavery and the mosquito's annexation of the Americas -- The seasoning: Mosquito landscapes, mythology, and the seeds of America -- Rogues in a nation: The mosquito and the creation of Greater Britain -- The crucible of disease: Colonial wars and a new world order -- Unalienable bites: The American Revolution -- Mercenary mosquitoes: Wars of liberation and the making of the Americas -- Mosquitoes of Manifest Destiny: Cotton, slavery, Mexico, and the American South -- Sinister angels of our nature: The American Civil War -- Unmasking the mosquito: Disease and imperialism -- This is Ann: She's dying to meet you : the Second World War, Dr. Seuss, and DDT -- Silent springs and superbugs: The mosquito renaissance -- The modern mosquito and her diseases: At the gates of extinction -- Conclusion. |
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Subject: | Diseases and history Human ecology Mosquitoes as carriers of disease Mosquitoes Ecology History |
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Statesville Main Library | 595.772 WIN (Text) | 33114018054411 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |