Born to die : disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cook, Noble David
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:New approaches to the Americas
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. In the path of the hurricane: disease and the disappearance of the peoples of the Caribbean, 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 illnesses from 1600-1650
  • Conclusion.