Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish AmericaNoble David Cook, William George Lovell In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, "Secret Judgments of God" discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.
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Contents
Abbreviations | 2 |
Disease Outbreaks in Central Mexico during | 20 |
Disease and Depopulation in Early Colonial | 49 |
Old World Epidemics in Early Colonial Ecuador | 84 |
Epidemic Disease in the Sabana de Bogotá | 113 |
Death in Aymaya of Upper Peru 15801623 | 142 |
Disease Population and Public Health | 159 |
Smallpox and War in Southern Chile in the Late | 183 |
Unraveling the Web of Disease | 213 |
Glossary | 243 |
Contributors | 273 |
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