A pest in the land : new world epidemics in a global perspective /

A pest in the land : new world epidemics in a global perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alchon, Suzanne Austin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Subjects:
Medical geography > Latin America.
Epidemiology > Latin America.
Communicable diseases > Latin America > History.
Disease Outbreaks > history > Americas.
Colonialism > history > Americas.
Communicable Diseases > history > Americas.
History, 17th Century > Americas.
History, 18th Century > Americas.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600 > Americas.
Indians, Central American > history > Americas.
Indians, North American > history > Americas.
Indians, South American > history > Americas.
Table of Contents:
  • Old world epidemiology to 1500
  • Amerindians and disease before 1492
  • Colonialism, disease, and the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and the Central Andes
  • Colonialism and disease in Brazil and North America
  • New world epidemics and European colonialism.