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by Charles C. Mann

spread of, 3.1, 10.1, 10.2

  in the United States, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  see also specific malaria vectors

  Malays

  Malaysia, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

  rubber in

  Malay slaves

  Maldive Islands, 1.1, 4.1

  Malinche

  Malthus, Thomas Robert, 5.1, 5.2

  Malthusian trap, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  Maluku Islands, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1

  Manassas, Battle of, see Bull Run, Battle of

  Manatee River

  Manaus, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

  Manchuria

  Manchus, 1.1, 4.1

  Mandinga, Pedro

  Mangyan people, 1.1, 10.1

  Manila, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5

  Asian slavery banned in

  attempted cartel in

  Chinese rebellions in, 4.1, 8.1

  Chinese trade with

  eviction of Chinese from

  import quotas

  malaria in

  massacres of Chinese in, 4.1, 5.1

  monument in

  Parián ghetto of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2

  restrictions of Chinese in

  Spaniards in

  Manila Bay

  manioc, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  Mannahatta

  Manrique, Felipe

  mantas

  manure

  Mao’s War Against Nature (Shapiro)

  Mao Zedong, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

  Maranhao

  Margarit, Pedro

  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

  Markham, Clements R., 7.1, 7.2

  maroons, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 9.10

  in Brazil

  Dutch and

  forces against, 9.1, 9.2

  increased population of

  liberty won by

  pirates and

  reenslavement of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  religion and

  Seminole alliance with, 9.1, 9.2

  Spanish treaty with

  in U.S., 9.1, 9.2

  marriage, 8.1, 10.1

  Martínez, María Elena

  Martinez Pastrana, Alonso

  Martín Fierro

  Martire d’Anghiera, Pietro

  Marx, Karl, 5.1, 5.2

  Mashco (Indian group)

  Mason, Charles

  Mason-Dixon Line, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1

  Massachusetts, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  slavery in

  matchlocks

  Maujao, 1.1, 10.1

  Maunder Minimum

  Maury, Matthew Fontaine

  Maya

  Mazagao Nova

  Mazagao Velho, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  McNeill, J. R., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.1, 9.2

  McNeill, William H.

  Mecca

  Medici, Alessandro de’, 8.1, 10.1

  Medici, Giulio de’

  Megadrilogica

  Mei Zengliang

  Melillo, Edward D.

  Melnikov, Konstantin

  Melo Palheta, Francisco de

  Menard, Russell R.

  Mendes, Chico

  Mendoza, Antonio de, 8.1, 8.2

  Mendoza, Juan González de

  mercury, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Merian, Matthäus

  mestizo, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  metalaxyl

  Mexico, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  Asian migration to

  Indian labor in

  malaria in

  potatoes in

  silk in

  silver mines of, 1.1, 8.1

  silver road in

  smallpox in, 1.1, 8.1

  sugar industry in

  Mexico City, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6

  Asian community in, 8.1, 8.2

  ethnic groups of

  as first globalized modern city

  religious festivals in

  Miao

  Miao people

  Michigan

  Microcyclus ulei, see leaf blight

  Middle East

  Mill, John Stuart

  Miller, Louis H.

  Miller, Shawn William

  millet, 5.1, 5.2

  Mindoro, 1.1, 10.1

  guerrillas in, 10.1, 10.2

  logging on, 10.1, 10.2

  Ming court, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Ming dynasty, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 8.1

  incompetancy of

  trade bans of, 4.1, 5.1

  Ming emperors

  Ming Shi, 4.1, 4.2

  Miramontes, Juan de

  Mirra, see Catarina de San Juan

  Miskitu, 9.1, 9.2

  Spanish plantations raided by

  missionaries, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1

  Mississippian societies, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Mississippi River, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1

  Mitchel, John

  Moche

  Mojos (Indian group)

  Mojú

  molasses

  Moluccas, see Maluku Islands

  money supply

  Mongols

  mongooses

  monoculture, industrial, 6.1, 6.2

  Montejo, Pedro de

  Montreal

  More, Thomas

  Moreau, Louis-Elie

  morenos

  Morgan, Edmund S., 2.1, 2.2

  morisco

  Morison, Samuel

  Morocco, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2

  Morozzo della Rocca, Robaldo

  Mosquito Empires (McNeill), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  mosquitoes, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2

  Motecuhzoma II (“Montezuma”), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Mughal India, 2.1, 8.1

  mulatto, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  mulberry trees, 4.1, 5.1

  mule trains, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  Muñoz, Diego

  Murphy, Edmund, 6.1, 6.2

  Murphy, Thomas

  Muscovy duck

  Mu Tianyan

  Myanmar, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  Myers, Michael D., 6.1, 6.2

  Nagasaki

  Nanjing, 1.1, 5.1

  Nansemond, 2.1, 2.2

  Napoleon III, Emperor of France, 7.1, 9.1

  Narváez, Pánfilo de, 8.1, 8.2

  Nasca

  National Defense Stockpile Center, U.S.

  National Food Authority (Philippines)

  National Fungus Collections, U.S.

  National Institutes of Health’s Laboratory of Parasitic Disease

  natural gas

  Navagero, Andrea, 7.1, 7.2

  Naval Observatory, U.S.

  Navassa

  Nazis

  Ndyuka

  Nebraska (maroon group)

  Netherlands, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1

  attacks on Palmares by

  English trade battle with

  maroons and

  potato blight in

  slave trade of

  New Amsterdam, slaves in

  New Edinburgh

  New England, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 8.1, 9.1

  Newfoundland, 1.1, 2.1

  New Guinea, 5.1, 8.1

  New Hampshire

  New Laws, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1

  New Mexico

  New People’s Army, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4

  New Spain, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2

  Asia migration to, 8.1, 8.2

  ban of indigenous slavery in

  forced Indian labor in

  mixed races in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6

  religion in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  restrictions on people of mixed race in

  two “republics” of

  New York, 3.1, 3.2

  New York Times, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1

  New Zealand

  Nicaragua, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  imported slaves from

  Nichols, Philip

  Nicola da Tolentino

 
nightshade family, 6.1, 6.2

  Niña

  nitrates, 6.1, 6.2

  nitrites

  nitrogen, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  Niza, Marcos de

  Nombre de Dios (Panama), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6

  North, Douglass C.

  North America

  European mortality rates in

  as narrow isthmus, 2.1, 2.2

  size of

  North Carolina

  Union troops in

  North China Plain, 5.1, 5.2

  North Sea

  Norway, famine in

  N. tabacum

  Núñez de Balboa, Vasco, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  oak, 1.1, 2.1

  Observer

  Offenburg

  offshore ownership

  O Gráda, Cormac, 6.1, 6.2

  oil, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2

  oil palms

  Oklahoma, 9.1, 9.2

  oomycete, 6.1, 6.2

  oospore

  Opechancanough, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1

  opium, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1

  oranges

  Organic Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology (Liebig), 6.1

  Oriental Despotism (Wittfogel)

  Orinoco River

  O’Rourke, Kevin, 4.1, 4.2

  Oryza glaberrima

  Oryza sativa

  Osborne, Anne R., 5.1, 5.2

  Ottoman Empire, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

  Ouerfelli, Mohamed

  Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de, 7.1, 9.1

  oxen

  ox tongue

  oysters

  Pai Francisco

  Pakistan

  palm

  Palmares, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7

  paludismo

  pampas

  Panam

  Panama, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Scottish colony in

  Panamá, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8

  slavery in

  P.&T. Collins

  Pangaea

  papas secas

  paper money, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Paramaribo (Suriname)

  Pará rubber tree, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 10.1

  pardos

  Parentintins (Indian group)

  Parián (Manila), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2

  Parián (Mexico City)

  Paris, 1.1, 7.1

  Paris Green

  Parmentier, Antoine-Augustin

  Paterson, William, 3.1, 3.2

  Peace Corps, U.S.

  peach palm (pupunha), 7.1, 9.1

  peanuts, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1

  pearls

  Pennsylvania

  People’s Liberation Army

  peppers (chili, sweet, bell), 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1

  Percy, George, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  Pereira, Alberto Lorenço

  Perestrello, Bartolomeu

  Pérez Dasmariñas, Gómez

  perfumes

  Pernambuco

  Peru, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  Chinese slaves in

  guano exports of

  independence of

  slavery in, 6.1, 6.2

  smallpox in

  Peruvian booby

  Peruvian cormorant, 6.1, 6.2

  Peruvian pelican

  pesos, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2

  pesticides, 6.1, 6.2

  as counter productive

  peyote

  Pheretima

  Philip II, King of Spain

  Philippine mahogany, 10.1, 10.2

  Philippines, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2

  introduced species to

  rice terraces in

  see also Manila

  photosynthesis

  phylloxera

  Phytophthora infestans

  origins of

  phytoplankton

  pigs

  pineapple

  Pinta

  piracy, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 8.2

  maroons and

  pirarucu

  Pius V, Pope

  Pizarro, Francisca

  Pizarro, Francisco, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2

  Pizarro, Gonzalo

  Pizarro, Hernando

  Plains Indian

  plantains, 1.1, 10.1

  plantations, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  in São Tomé

  slavery on, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1

  sugar, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6

  Plasmodium, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1

  biochemical signaling by

  P. falciparum, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 9.1, 10.1

  P. vivax, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 10.1, 10.2

  as sensitive to temperature

  Plaza Mayor, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Plimoth

  Plymouth

  pneumonia, 3.1, 4.1

  Pocahontas, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 10.1

  marriage of, 2.1, 3.1

  rescue story of

  Poland

  Pollan, Michael, 6.1, 8.1

  pollination, 2.1, 10.1

  polymers

  Polypheretima

  Poma de Ayala, Felipe Guaman

  Pomeranz, Kenneth

  Ponce de León y Figueroa, Juan

  porcelain, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

  import quotas on

  Portobelo, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  Porto Calvo, 9.1, 9.2

  Porto Santo

  Portugal, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  attacks on Palmares by, 9.1, 9.2

  slavers from, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

  slavery in, 3.1, 8.1

  Portuguese Estado da India

  potassium

  Potato, The (Hawkes)

  potato beetle, 6.1, 6.2

  potato blight, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5

  see also specific countries and areas

  potato cyst nematode

  potatoes, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1

  diversity of, 6.1, 6.2

  European introduction of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  harvest time of

  indigenous cooking of

  late blight and

  nutritional content of

  planting of

  population increase from

  toxicity of

  water content of

  wild, 6.1, 6.2

  see also sweet potatoes

  Potosí, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2

  mine conditions at, 4.1, 4.2

  tax cheating in

  violence in

  Power and Plenty (Findlay & O’Rourke)

  Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West (Hall), 4.1

  Powhatan, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10

  Powhatan (Indian group)

  agriculture of, 2.1, 2.2

  attack on Jamestown

  culture of

  Jamestown food supplied by

  slavery among

  Preservation Virginia, 3.1, 3.2

  “price revolution”

  “privateering”, 2.1, 2.2

  Providence Island

  Provisional Law 458

  Prussia, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

  Pryse, Hugh

  Puebla clay

  Puebla de los Angeles, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5

  Puerto Rico, 8.1, 8.2

  pupunha (peach palm), 7.1, 9.1

  Purus River

  Putumayo River

  Pyne, Stephen J.

  Qing dynasty, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9

  coastal clearance of

  insularity of

  Qosqo

  Quan Hansheng, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

  Quapaw (Arkansas, Indian group)

  Quarequa, 9.1, 9.2

  Querol i Subirats, Agustí

  quil
ombos, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 545n

  quinine, 7.1, 7.2

  quinoa

  Quiroga, Vasco de

  Quispe Cusi, 8.1, 8.2

  Quito

  rabbits

  race

  concepts of, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1

  casta paintings of, 8.1, 8.2

  marriage and

  mixing of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2

  radial tires

  Radkau, Joachim

  railroad

  Ralegh, Walter

  Ramos, Alonso

  Ramos, Aria

  Rappahannock River

  rat lungworm

  reales

  Recife, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  red blood cells, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  reforestation, 1.1, 1.2

  Reis, Joao José

  Reiter’s syndrome, 1.1, 10.1

  Renchuan, Lin

  Restall, Matthew, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Revitalize Indigenous Cordilleran Entrepreneurs (RICE)

  Revolutionary War, malaria and

  Reynolds, John W.

  Rhode Island

  Ribeiro, Eduardo

  rice, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2

  flooding and

  “heirloom”

  Richmond, Virginia

  Riley, Charles Valentine

  Rio de Janeiro, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1

  Rio de la Plata

  Rio Grande, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1

  Riou, Edouard

  Ristaino, Jean

  Rizal, José

  Roanoke Island, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1

  Robinson, James A., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Rodríguez, Manel Ollé

  Rolfe, John, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6

  Room of Miarcles

  Roots (TV miniseries)

  Rosario Costa Cabral, Maria do, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1

  Rountree, Helen, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  Rowsley, William

  Royal Botanic Gardens

  Royal Geographical Society, 7.1, 7.2

  Royal Spanish Academy, 3.1, 3.2

  rubber, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  balls made of, 7.1, 7.2

  boom in, 7.1, 7.2

  boots made from

  chemistry of

  control of trade in

  ecological impact of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  electrification and

  garments made with

  Indian laborers and

  labor for

  in Laos

  primary source of natural

  production of, 7.1, 7.2

  synthetic vs. natural

  ubiquitousness of

  vulcanization of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  see also Brazil, caucho, China, leaf blight, Pará rubber tree

  “rubber fever”

  rubber plantations, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  rubber trees

  difference between Hevea and Castilla species

  milking of

  overexploitation of

  Ruddiman, William F., 1.1, 10.1

  rum

  Russia

  Saarinen, Eliel

  sago

  St. Augustine

  St. James

  St. Kitts

  Salazar, Domingo de

  Salcedo, Juan de

  Salé

  Salem, Mass.

  Salmon, William

  salt poisoning, 2.1, 3.1

  Salvador (Salvador de Bahia), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1

  Salvatierra de la Sabana

  Sami (Finnish group)

  Sampzon, Esteban

  samurai

 

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