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Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America Volume 205

Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America Volume 205

Cook, Noble David
Lovell, W. George

Paperback

Series: Civilization of the American Indian, Book 205

General Latin American History

ISBN10: 0806133775
ISBN13: 9780806133775
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Dec 15 2001
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, Secret Judgments of God discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.

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