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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Prospering in warm, wet habitats, mosquitoes spread many illnesses, and malaria remains the most lethal known today by far.
Chapter 3: Sickle cell trait arose as a genetic shield to malaria and produced wide-ranging historical effects.
Chapter 4: Mosquito-borne malaria played a decisive role in both the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian Wars.
Chapter 5: Malaria ultimately felled Alexander the Great.
Chapter 6: Malaria was a key force in the ascent and decline of the Roman Empire.
Chapter 7: Malaria helped spur Christianity’s rise and hastened the eventual failure of the Crusades.
Chapter 8: Europeans introduced malaria and other diseases to the Western Hemisphere, devastating indigenous societies.
Chapter 9: Throughout European colonization of the Americas, the mosquito helped shape the rise of both slavery and revolution.
Chapter 10: By lengthening the Civil War, the mosquito helped to hasten the end of American slavery.
Chapter 11: In the Spanish-American War, the mosquito helped the US launch its ascent to global dominance.
Chapter 12: Following the Spanish-American War, major advances were achieved in the battle against mosquito-borne diseases.
Chapter 13: During and between World Wars One and Two, mosquito-borne diseases were pushed back even further.
Chapter 14: Assailed by DDT and antimalarial drugs, the mosquito’s power ebbed and then resurged in the twentieth century again.
Chapter 15: The story of the mosquito’s impact on humanity is still being written.
Description
The Mosquito (2019) provides a sweeping tour of human history with a novel twist. As it follows the course of the pivotal events that shaped the world in which we live today, it draws attention to some of the most important but under-appreciated factors that have influenced those events: the mosquito and the deadly diseases it carries.
Who Should Listen
- World history buffs seeking a new perspective on pivotal events in the past
- People interested in how diseases have shaped our species
- Anyone looking for even more reasons to hate the mosquito