Barbados and The Rise of Mosquitoes In The Caribbean

Written By The Yaad

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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