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- catalog abstract "The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave; smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame for the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, literally though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.".
- catalog alternative "Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650".
- catalog contributor b10396890.
- catalog coverage "America History To 1810.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "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 Illness from 1600 to 1650.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.".
- catalog description "The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave; smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame for the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, literally though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 248 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521622085 (hc)".
- catalog identifier "0521627303 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "New approaches to the Americas".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "America History To 1810.".
- catalog spatial "America.".
- catalog spatial "Americas".
- catalog spatial "Americas.".
- catalog subject "614.4/97 21".
- catalog subject "Disease Outbreaks Americas History.".
- catalog subject "E59.D58 C66 1998".
- catalog subject "Epidemics America.".
- catalog subject "Indians Diseases.".
- catalog subject "Indians Population.".
- catalog subject "Indians, Central American Americas.".
- catalog subject "Indians, South American Americas.".
- catalog subject "WA 11 DA1 C771b 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 Illness from 1600 to 1650.".
- catalog title "Born to die : disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650 / Noble David Cook.".
- catalog title "Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".