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The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave: smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases literally conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame of the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History Regional & national history

• Pełny tytuł: Born to Die
• Podtytuł: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650
• Autor: Noble David Cook
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 268
• EAN: 9780521627306
• ISBN: 0521627303
• ID: 04093480
• Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
• Waga: 424 g
• Wymiary: 154 × 230 × 17 mm
• Data wydania: 13. February 1998

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