Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America

Book Overview

There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the Americas, causing considerable harm and death to indigenous peoples. But though these diseases were devastating, their impact has been widely exaggerated. Warfare, enslavement, land expropriation, removals, erasure of identity, and other factors undermined Native populations. These factors worked in a deadly cabal with germs to cause...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081653554X
• ISBN13: 9780816535545
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"