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147. Disease, the New World and modern pandemics

The Rest Is History

CHAPTER

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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