Parasitic Empires Jim Herrick *Increased attention to medical and

*Increased attention to medical and neuroscientific research

Revealing shapes that are reminiscent of aliens from other worlds—often with bizarre modifications for a planktonic life or for parasitization

A tour de force work of fiction with interweaving themes of environmentalism

Mining autograph manuscripts

the authors make Weil's complex and at times elusive ideas accessible to readers

Parasitic Empires Jim Herrick *Increased attention to medical andReal and imagined versions of the island and the microbe come together to tell a new story about geopolitical relations between two successive Anglophone empires: the British and the American. Bassam Sidiki assembles a vast archive of literary, cultural, and medical documents to argue that claims of British or American insularity are specious; these Anglophone empires have been economically, culturally, and scientifically interdependent since the turn