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Paperback A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective Book

ISBN: 0826328717

ISBN13: 9780826328717

A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective

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Newly pertinent to today's coronavirus pandemic, this study of disease among the native peoples of the New World before and after 1492 challenges many widely held notions about encounters between European and native peoples. Whereas many late twentieth century scholars blamed the catastrophic decline of postconquest native populations on the introduction of previously unknown infections from the Old World, Alchon argues that the experiences of...

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