Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450-1800.

'Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.' So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been considerable discussion concerning their precise demographic impact, reflected in the articles here, there is no doubt that the arrival of new diseases with the Eu...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Kiple, Kenneth F., 1939-2016, Beck, Stephen V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Expanding world ; v. 26.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origin and antiquity of syphilis : paleopathological diagnosis and interpretation / Brenda J. Baker and George J. Armelagos
  • Disease and the depopulation of Hispanola, 1492-1518 / Noble David Cook
  • New world depopulation and the case of disease / Donald Joralemon
  • Conquistador y pestilencia : the first new world pandemic and the fall of the great Indian empires / Alfred W. Crosby
  • Outline of Andean epidemic history to 1720 / Henry F. Dobyns
  • Epidemiology and the slave trade / Philip D. Curtin
  • Influence of disease on race, logistics and colonization in the Antilles / Francisco Guerra
  • Fear of hot climates in the Anglo-American colonial experience / Karen Ordahl Kupperman
  • Of agues and fevers : malaria in the early Chesapeake / Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman
  • Smallpox and the Indians in the American colonies / John Duffy
  • Significance of disease in the extinction of the New England Indians / Sherburne F. Cook
  • Smallpox in aboriginal Australia, 1829-1831 / Judy Campbell
  • Disease and infertility : a new look at the demographic collapse of native populations in the wake of western contact / David E. Stannard
  • Creative disruptions in American agriculture, 1620-1820 / E.L. Jones
  • Europe's initial population explosion / William L. Langer.