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ISBN-10 :  1524743410 

ISBN-13 :  9781524743413

Author:  Timothy C. Winegard 

**The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate   Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington’s secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito.   Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughly the size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history as the grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agent of historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes of civilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercing impact and universal projection of power.   The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed and crippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout our relatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we have ever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than any other living thing with which we share our global village.   Imagine for a moment a world without deadly mosquitoes, or any mosquitoes, for that matter? Our history and the world we know, or think we know, would be completely unrecognizable.   Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.

The Mosquito A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator 1st Table of contents:

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

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