Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800

by Erik R. Seeman

Book Overview

Reminders of death were everywhere in the New World, from the epidemics that devastated Indian populations and the mortality of slaves working the Caribbean sugar cane fields to the unfamiliar diseases that afflicted Europeans in the Chesapeake and West Indies. According to historian Erik R. Seeman, when Indians, Africans, and Europeans encountered one another, they could not ignore the similarities in their approaches to death. All of these groups...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222194X
• ISBN13: 9780812221947
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"