Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Toxic Twins: The Mosquito and Her Diseases |
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Chapter 2 Survival of the Fittest: Fever Demons, Footballs, and Sickle Cell Safeties |
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Chapter 3 General Anopheles: From Athens to Alexander |
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Chapter 4 Mosquito Legions: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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Chapter 5 Unrepentant Mosquitoes: A Crisis of Faiths and the Crusades |
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Chapter 6 Mosquito Hordes: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire |
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Chapter 7 The Columbian Exchange: Mosquitoes and the Global Village |
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Chapter 8 Accidental Conquerors: African Slavery and the Mosquito's Annexation of the Americas |
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Chapter 9 The Seasoning: Mosquito Landscapes, Mythology, and the Seeds of America |
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Chapter 10 Rogues in a Nation: The Mosquito and the Creation of Greater Britain |
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Chapter 11 The Crucible of Disease: Colonial Wars and a New World Order |
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Chapter 12 Unalienable Bites: The American Revolution |
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Chapter 13 Mercenary Mosquitoes: Wars of Liberation and the Making of the Americas |
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Chapter 14 Mosquitoes of Manifest Destiny Cotton, Slavery, Mexico, and the American South |
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Chapter 15 Sinister Angels of Our Nature: The American Civil War |
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Chapter 16 Unmasking the Mosquito: Disease and Imperialism |
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Chapter 17 This Is Ann: She's Dying to Meet You: The Second World War, Dr. Seuss, and DDT |
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Chapter 18 Silent Springs and Superbugs: The Mosquito Renaissance |
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Chapter 19 The Modern Mosquito and Her Diseases: At the Gates of Extinction? |
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Conclusion |
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Acknowledgments |
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Selected Bibliography |
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Notes |
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Index |
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