Born to die : disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 / Noble David Cook.
Born to die : disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 / Noble David Cook.
Born to die : disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 / Noble David Cook.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N614.497/1
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English
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xiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. In the Path of the Hurricane: Disease and the Disappearance of the Peoples of the Carribean, 1492-1518 -- 2. The Deaths of Aztec Cuitlahuac and Inca Huayna Capac: The First New World Pandemics -- 3. Settling In: Epidemics and Conquest to the End of the First Century -- 4. Regional Outbreaks from...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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England
Date Published
1998.
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The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame for the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, literally though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization....
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Born to die : disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 / Noble David Cook.
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New approaches to the Americas.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.
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N614.497/1
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74VMyXjxED4Z
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0521627303 (pbk.)
9780521622080 (hc)
0521622085 (hc)
9780521627306 (pbk.)
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614.497
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991002089089702626
