(Ebook) A Pest in the Land New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective 1st Edition by Suzanne Austin Alchon ISBN 9780826328717 0826328717

(Ebook) A Pest in the Land New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective 1st Edition by Suzanne Austin Alchon ISBN 9780826328717 0826328717

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ISBN 10: 0826328717
ISBN 13: 9780826328717
Author: Suzanne Austin Alchon

Newly pertinent to today’s coronavirus pandemic, this study of disease among the native peoples of the New World before and after 1492 challenges many widely held notions about encounters between European and native peoples. Whereas many late twentieth century scholars blamed the catastrophic decline of postconquest native populations on the introduction of previously unknown infections from the Old World, Alchon argues that the experiences of native peoples in the New World closely resembled those of other human populations. Exposure to lethal new infections resulted in rates of morbidity and mortality among native Americans comparable to those found among Old World populations.

Why then did native American populations decline by 75 to 90 percent in the century following contact with Europeans? Why did these populations fail to recover, in contrast to those of Africa, Asia, and Europe? Alchon points to the practices of European colonialism. Warfare and slavery increased mortality, and forced migrations undermined social, political, and economic institutions.

This timely study effectively overturns the notion of New World exceptionalism. By showing that native Americans were not uniquely affected by European diseases, Alchon also undercuts the stereotypical notion of the Americas as a new Eden, free of disease and violence until the intrusion of germ-laden, rapacious Europeans.

(Ebook) A Pest in the Land New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Old World Epidemiology to 1500

The Universal Nature of Human Responses to Disease

The Origins and History of Human Disease in the Old World

The Significance of the Old World Disease Experience

Chapter 2 Amerindians and Disease Before 1492

Dating the Arrival of Humans in the New World

Health and Disease Before 1492

Patterns of Mortality among Hunter-Gatherers

Patterns of Mortality among Sedentary Agriculturalists

Chapter 3. Colonialism, Disease, and the Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and the Central Andes

The Introduction of Old World Diseases to the Americas

The Smallpox Epidemic of 1518

Mexico

Central America

The Andes

The Old World and the New

Chapter 4. Colonialism and Disease in Brazil and North America

Brazil

North America

Florida and the Southeast

The Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico

The Northeastern United States and Canada

California and the Pacific Northwest

The Great Plains

Brazil and North America in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 5. New World Epidemics and European Colonialism

Native American and European Responses to Epidemic Disease

The Impact of European Colonialism

Motives and Methods: Military Conquest

Indigenous Slavery

Indigenous Labor and Migration

Conclusion

Appendix. The Demographic Debate

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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