The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion

by Barbara Alice Mann

For the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West.

The speculation that the United States did infect Indian populations has long been a source of both outrage and skepticism. Now there is an exhaustively researched exploration of an issue that continues to haunt U.S.-Native...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313353387
• ISBN13: 9780313353383
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"