A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective (Dialogos)(Paperback))

by SuzanneAustinAlchon (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $38.13

  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.