Technology, disease, and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories /

Technology, disease, and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Raudzens, George, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
Series:History of warfare ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Diseases and history > America > History.
Indians > First contact with Europeans.
Military art and science > Europe > History.
Disease Outbreaks > history > Americas.
Disease Outbreaks > history > Philippines.
Colonialism > history > Americas.
Colonialism > history > Philippines.
America > History > To 1810.
Europe > Territorial expansion.
Europe > Colonies > America.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • European overseas expansion and the military revolution / Jeremy Black
  • Outfighting or outpopulating? Main reasons for early colonial conquests, 1493-1788 / George Raudzens
  • Conflict and synthesis: frontier warfare in North America, 1513-1815 / Armstrong Starkey
  • The long conquest: collaboration by native Andean elites in the colonial system, 1532-1825 / David Cahill
  • The impact of disease / Francis Brooks
  • Pathogens, places and peoples: geographical variations in the impact of disease in early Spanish America and the Philippines / Linda Newson
  • The Iberian advantage / Lawrence Clayton
  • "Black with canoes" / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins and Dale Standen.