147. Disease, the New World and modern pandemics
The Rest Is History
The Deadly Influence of Disease on Colonial Ambitions
This chapter examines how diseases like malaria influenced European colonization in West Africa and the American South. It highlights the differences in disease impact on cotton plantations and discusses the ecological and economic factors shaping colonial ambitions.
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