Jun 8, 2017
Matt and I have been together in
Utah for the AP World History reading, and today we managed to find
some time in the evening to talk about environmental history and
its place in the study of the Age of Revolutions. Key sources are
Mosquito Empires and Pox Americana as we look at how differential
immunity played a crucial role in the fate of the Haitian and
American Revolutions respectively. We also discuss ways to give
disease an important place in events without giving in to
environmental determinism, a discussion that was well lubricated by
whiskey from High West Distillery. A source for Kwame Nkrumah’s
suggested mosquito statue in Accra can be found here.
Recommendations are:
Matt
– Miller, An Environmental History of Latin
America
Dave
– Dubois, Avengers of the New World