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

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.… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.