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INDEX
References in italics refer to illustrations.
acacia
açai, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Acapulco, 1.1, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2
Acemoglu, Daron, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Acosta, José de
Acre River
Acuña, Pedro Bravo de
Adams, Henry, 2.1, 2.2
Aedes aegypti, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 9.1
Africa, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2
economic system of, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
malaria in
migrations from
scale insects of, 1.1, 10.1
slavery in, 9.1, 10.1
yellow fever in
African rice
Africans
assimilation into Indian groups by
fight against Indians of
growing population of, 8.1, 8.2
immigration of
immunities of, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 10.1
Indian alliances of
movement of
slaves owned by
slave supply controlled by
see also slaves, slavery
Afro-Europeans, see mulatto
Agra
“agricultural revolution” (18th century), 6.1, 8.1
see also agro-industrial complex; fertilizer; monoculture, industrial
agriculture
of Andes
of China
of Indians
of Powhatan people, 2.1, 2.2
sugarcane plantation
see also specific crops
agro-industrial complex
fertilizer and
pesticides and
potatoes and
Akbar, Mughal emperor
Akha, 7.1, 7.2
Alagoas
albarazado
Albert of Aachen
albino
Alcoa
Alegría, Ricardo E., 8.1, 8.2, 10.1
Alexander VI, Pope
Algiers
Algonkian societies, 3.1, 3.2
Almeida, Manuel
almidón de papa (potato starch)
alpaca
altiplano, 6.1, 6.2
Amapá, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Amazon basin
indigenous population of
malaria in
Amazonian manatee
Amazon River, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
land tenure in
weather conditions of
American Journal of Potato Research
ammonia
Amoy, see Xiamen
Anaurapucu
anchoveta fish
Andalusia
Andean Indians, 4.1, 4.2
Anderson, Robert C., 3.1, 3.2
Anderson, Virginia D.
Andes Mountains, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1
cultures of
farming and
slaves imported from
traditions of
weather patterns of
Angola, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2
Annals of Botany
Anopheles, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
A. albinmanus, 3.1, 3.2
A. darlingi, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1
A. gambiae
A. maculipennis
A. quadrimaculatus, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
Anqing
Anson, George
Antigua, see Santa María la Antigua del Darién
ants (plague in Hispaniola), 1.1, 1.2, 10.1
Antwerp
Apache
Apax Partners
Aqualtune, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
Arabian Sea
Arana, Julio César, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Arapahoes
Arawak
Argensola, Bartolomé Leonardo de
Argentina
slavery in, 3.1, 8.1, 10.1
Army of the Potomac
Arobe, Francisco de
arsenic, 6.1, 6.2
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé
Asante empire
asexual reproduction
Asians
as business competition
as slaves, 8.1, 8.2
Atawallpa, 8.1, 8.2
Atlantic City, N.J.
Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census, The (Curtin)
Atlantic sturgeon
Atwell, William
Aubrey, John
Austerlitz
Australia
Austria
Azemmour
Azores
Aztec empire, see Triple Alliance
Azúa de Compostela
bacaba
bacuri
Bad Earth, The (Smil), 5.1
Bahamas
“Bahay Kubo”
Balboa, see Núñez de Balboa
Balbuena, Bernardo de
balls, 7.1, 7.2
bamboo
banana
Banaue
bandeirante
Bangladesh
Ban Namma
Ban Songma
Bañuelos y Carrillo, Hieronimo de, 4.1, 4.2
Barbados, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
yellow fever in
Barbary pirates
barbers
barcino
barley, 5.1, 6.1
Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Merced
bats, 9.1, 10.1
Battle of Okeechobee
Bauhin, Gaspard
bauxite, 9.1, 9.2
Bayano, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Bay of All Saints
beans, 1.1, 6.1
beaver, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
beeswax
Beeton, Isabella
Beijing, 1.1, 5.1, 8.1
Belém do Pará, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Belgian Congo
Belgium, 6.1, 6.2
Belize
Benavides, Miguel de, 4.1, 10.1
Benin
Berbers
beriberi
Berkeley Hundred, 2.1, 10.1
Bermuda, 2.1, 3.1
Beyer, Henry Otley
Biogeochemistry of Vertebrate Excretion, The (Hutchinson),