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
Summary
In this timely study of all the reasons for extreme declines in native populations in the New World after colonization by Europeans, the author questions prevalent theories that exposure to Old World diseases was the sole cause of the devastation
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-207) and index
