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Born to Die : Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650
by Cook, Noble David
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0521622085
- ISBN 13
- 9780521622080
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0521622085 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "explains, in vivid detail and sweeping scope, how the conquest of the New World was achieved by a handful of Europeans--not by the sword, but by deadly disease. The Aztec and Inca empires with their teeming millions were destroyed by a few hundred Europeans whose most important weapons, though the conquerors did not realize it at the time, were diseases previously unknown in the Americas. The end result of the colonizing experience in the Americas, whether of the Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, or French, was the collapse of native society." Contents: Introduction; 1. In the path of the hurricane: disease and the disappearance of the peoples of the Caribbean, 14921518; 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 illnesses from 16001650; Conclusion.; New Approaches to the Americas; Ex-Library; xv, 248 pages .
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 10333
- Title
- Born to Die : Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650
- Author
- Cook, Noble David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0521622085
- ISBN 13
- 9780521622080
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 0521622085, History Of Medicine, Age Of Discovery, Pandemics, Native American - Diseases, American Indian History - Epidemics, Aztec History, Incan Empire - History, America -- Discovery And Exploration, Americas - Spanish Conquest
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