Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Ca

Informationen zum Autor Paul Kelton is an associate professor of history at the University of Kansas. Klappentext Paul Kelton is an associate professor of history at the University of Kansas. Zusammenfassung Examines the relationship between the Indian slave trade and the spread of Old World diseases in the colonial southeastern US. This book traces the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of Southeast and concludes that Natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts in the 16th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments   Series Editors' Introduction  Introduction      1. Disease Ecology of the Native Southeast, 1000-1492 2. The Protohistoric Puzzle, 1492-1659    3. Slave Raids and Smallpox, 1659-1700    4. The Epidemiological Origins of the Yamasee War, 1700-1715      Conclusion  Notes Bibliography      Index

Product details

• Authors: Paul Kelton
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2009
• EAN: 9780803227910
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-2791-0
• Series: Indians of the Southeast; Indians of the Southeast (Pape; Indians of the Southeast
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous