Born to die : disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 / Noble David Cook
- Bib ID:
- 751715
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- Author:
- Cook, Noble David
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
- xiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0521622085 (hardback)
- 0521627303 (paperback)
- Series:
- New approaches to the Americas.
- Summary:
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The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave; smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination.
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.
- Full contents:
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- 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 the 1530s to Century's End
- 5. New Arrivals: Peoples and Illness from 1600 to 1650.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.
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