Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Band 205) - Softcover

Cook, Noble David; Lovell, W. George

 
9780806133775: Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Band 205)

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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Noble David Cook is William Bentson Professor of History at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut.



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.

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9780806123721: Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

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ISBN 10:  0806123729 ISBN 13:  9780806123721
Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992
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