Born to Die Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650

Name: Born to Die Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650
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ISBN: 9780521627306

ISBN-10: 0521627303

ISBN-13: 9780521627306

Edition: 1998

Authors: Noble David Cook, Stuart Schwartz

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In Born to Die Cook explains that the conquest of the New World was achieved by a handful of Europeans - not by the sword, but by deadly disease.

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.69" wide x 8.46" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History and chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. His many books include "All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World".



Introduction



In the path of the hurricane: disease and the disappearance of the peoples of the Caribbean, 1492-1518



The deaths of Aztec Cuitlahuac and Inca Huayna Capac: the first New World pandemics



Settling in: epidemics and conquest to the end of the first century



Regional outbreaks from the 1530s to century's end



New arrivals: peoples and illnesses from 1600-1650


Conclusion