Offers a 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;Indhold: Toxic twins: The mosquito and her diseases ; Survival of the fittest: Fever demons, footballs, and sickle cell safeties ; General Anopheles: From Athens to Alexander ; Mosquito legions: The rise and fall of the Roman Empire ; Unrepentant mosquitoes: A crisis of faiths and the Crusades ; Mosquito hordes: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire ; The Columbian exchange: Mosquitoes and the global village ; Accidental conquerors: African slavery and the mosquito's annexation of the Americas ; The seasoning: Mosquito landscapes, mythology, and the seeds of America ; Rogues in a nation: The mosquito and the creation of Greater Britain ; The crucible of disease: Colonial wars and a new world order ; Unalienable bites: The American Revolution ; Mercenary mosquitoes: Wars of liberation and the making of the Americas ; Mosquitoes of Manifest Destiny: Cotton, slavery, Mexico, and the American South ; Sinister angels of our nature: The American Civil War ; Unmasking the mosquito: Disease and imperialism ; This is Ann: She's dying to meet you : the Second World War, Dr. Seuss, and DDT ; Silent springs and superbugs: The mosquito renaissance ; The modern mosquito and her diseases: At the gates of extinction