A pest in the land : new world epidemics in a global perspective / Suzanne Austin Alchon.

  • Alchon, Suzanne Austin.
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[2003], ©2003
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Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003], ©2003.

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ix, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-207) and index.

Contents

Old world epidemiology to 1500 -- Amerindians and disease before 1492 -- Colonialism, disease, and the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and the Central Andes -- Colonialism and disease in Brazil and North America -- New world epidemics and European colonialism.

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    History of Medicine
    ED.6
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  • 0826328709
  • 0826328717