Stuart McCook

Research areas:

• history of tropical agriculture, especially export commodities.
• botany, agriculture, and nation-building in the Greater Caribbean
• environmental history of tropical crops — especially to a series of catastrophic plant diseases that afflicted almost every major tropical crop, starting in the mid-nineteenth century
• the coffee leaf rust
• global history
• commodity history
• the history of science
• technology
• medicine
• disease and history
• the history of natural disasters
• Latin American history