A pest in the land : new world epidemics in a global perspective
Challenges many widely held notions about encounters between European and native peoples. Whereas many late twentieth century scholars blamed the catastrophic decline of post-conquest native populations on the introduction of previously unknown infections from the Old World, Alchon argues that the experiences of native peoples in the New World closely resembled those of other human populations.
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, ©2003
History
ix, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780826328700, 9780826328717, 0826328709, 0826328717
50773314
Old world epidemiology to 1500
Amerindians and disease before 1492
Colonialism, disease, and the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and the Central Andes
Colonialism and disease in Brazil and North America
New world epidemics and European colonialism