Barbados and The Rise of Mosquitoes In The Caribbean
On this episode, we discussed how the colonisation of Barbados by Europeans led to the rise of mosquitoes in the region as well as look at other ecological transformation that have led to other present day problems across the region.
Additional Knowledge
BOOKS
Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide by Hilary McD. Beckles
Capitalism And Slavery by Eric Williams
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged The First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal by Olive Senior
Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal by Marixa Lasso
How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty by Hilary McD. Beckles
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Mosquito: A Natural History of Man's Most Persistent and Deadly Foe by Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio
Mosquito Control In Panama: The Eradication Of Malaria And Yellow Fever In Cuba And Panama by Joseph Albert Augustin Le Prince and A. J. Orenstein
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 by J. R. McNeill
Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century by Kaysha Corinealdi
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah
The First Black Slave Society: Britain's "Barbarity Time" in Barbados, 1636-1876 by Hilary McD. Beckles
The Interplay Between Socio-Economic Factors and Medical Science: Yellow Fever Research, Cuba and the United States by Nancy Stepan
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard
The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670: A Documentary History by Malyn Newitt
ACADEMIC PAPERS
Climate and Dengue Transmission in Grenada for the Period 2010–2020: Should We Be Concerned? by Kinda Francis, Odran Edwards and Lindonne Telesford
Ecology, Epidemics and Empires: Environmental Change and the Geopolitics of Tropical America, 1600-1825 by J.R. McNeill
How The Yellow Fever Mosquito Found Its First Human Victim by Joshua Sokol
The 1802 Saint-Domingue Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Louisiana Purchase by John S. Marr and John T. Cathey
“The First Mountain to Be Removed": Yellow Fever Control and the Construction of the Panama Canal by Paul S. Sutter
The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and Historiography by Mariola Espinosa
Yellow Fever and the Slave Trade: Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Debbie Lee
Yellow Fever Immunities in West Africa and the Americas in the Age of Slavery and Beyond: A Reappraisal by Sheldon Watts
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