| Secret Judgments of God, Volume 205: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America Contributor(s): Cook, Noble David (Author), Lovell, W. George (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806133775 ISBN-13: 9780806133775 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History |
| Dewey: 614.428 |
| Series: Civilization of the American Indian |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.6" W x 8.52" (0.77 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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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Contributor Bio(s): Cook, Noble David: - Noble David Cook is William Bentson Professor of History at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Lovell, W. George: - W. George Lovell is Professor of Geography at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and author of A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala. |