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Born to Die : Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650

Born to Die : Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650 Hardcover - 1998

by Cook, Noble David

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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, 1492–1518; 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 1600–1650; Conclusion.; New Approaches to the Americas; Ex-Library; xv, 248 pages .
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  • Title Born to Die : Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650
  • Author Cook, Noble David
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; First Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 10333
  • ISBN 9780521622080 / 0521622085
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.28 x 0.93 in (23.57 x 15.95 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects America - History - To 1810, Indians - Population
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97025064
  • Dewey Decimal Code 614.497

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