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- catalog abstract ""In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers from Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong." "Interpreting the archaeological as well as the historical evidence, Henige concludes that the task of assigning meaningful numbers for the American Indian contact population is an impossible one."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10601163.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers from Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong." "Interpreting the archaeological as well as the historical evidence, Henige concludes that the task of assigning meaningful numbers for the American Indian contact population is an impossible one."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Do Numbers Lie? -- The Historical Career of One Number -- Higher Numbers, Higher Ground -- Damning the Torpedoes -- Giving Disease a Bad Name -- Rashomon the Chronicler -- Antipodean Antics -- Evading History through Language -- Rescuing History from the Sources -- Fragments in Search of Predispositions -- Contact Does Not Equal Contagion -- Surplus to Requirements -- Colonial Cloning -- The Jury Will Disregard -- I Came, I Saw, I Counted -- By Wonder Inflamed -- Epidemic Hyperbole -- Careful Errors -- Numbering the Imaginary/Imagining Numbers -- How Many Wrongs Make a Right? -- Numbers Do Lie.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-517) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 532 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "080613044X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog subject "304.6/08997 21".
- catalog subject "E59.P75 H45 1998".
- catalog subject "History Methodology.".
- catalog subject "Indians Population.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Do Numbers Lie? -- The Historical Career of One Number -- Higher Numbers, Higher Ground -- Damning the Torpedoes -- Giving Disease a Bad Name -- Rashomon the Chronicler -- Antipodean Antics -- Evading History through Language -- Rescuing History from the Sources -- Fragments in Search of Predispositions -- Contact Does Not Equal Contagion -- Surplus to Requirements -- Colonial Cloning -- The Jury Will Disregard -- I Came, I Saw, I Counted -- By Wonder Inflamed -- Epidemic Hyperbole -- Careful Errors -- Numbering the Imaginary/Imagining Numbers -- How Many Wrongs Make a Right? -- Numbers Do Lie.".
- catalog title "Numbers from nowhere : the American Indian contact population debate / David Henige.".
- catalog type "text".