Born to die : disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | New approaches to the Americas
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Table of Contents:
- 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.