Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? : torrid diseases in a temperate world / Robert S. Desowitz.
Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? : torrid diseases in a temperate world / Robert S. Desowitz.
Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? : torrid diseases in a temperate world / Robert S. Desowitz.
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New York : W.W. Norton, c1997.
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N616.9883/13
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English
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Physical content
256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction. Tropical Diseases - As Anglo-American as the Heart Attack -- Ch. 1. Coming to the Americas: 50,000 B.C. to 1492 A.D. - The Humans -- Ch. 2. Coming to the Americas: 50,000 B.C. to 1492 A.D. - The Worms and Germs -- Ch. 3. Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? 1492 to 1635 A.D. -- Ch. 4. Te...
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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c1997.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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This book starts with the little creatures the first American immigrants brought with them on the long walk from Siberia 50,000 years ago. It moves on to all that unwanted baggage that sailed over with the Spanish, the French, and the English and killed native Americans in huge numbers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (The native America...
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Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? : torrid diseases in a temperate world / Robert S. Desowitz.
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Includes index.
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c1997.
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N616.9883/13
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ISBN
0393040844
9780393040845
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616.9883
MMS ID
991005153769702626
