books.google.ca - Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Romanticism_and_Colonial_Disease.html?id=SNAJfFIs7kgC&q=cultural&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRomanticism and Colonial Disease
