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Germs, seeds & animals : studies in ecological history
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- Creator
- Alfred W. Crosby
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1994]
- ©1994
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781563242496, 1563242494, 9781563242502, 1563242508
- OCLC
- ocm28066786
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The Columbian voyages, the Columbian exchange, and their historians -- Ecological Imperialism: the overseas migration of Western Europeans as a biological phenomenon -- The biological metamorphosis of the Americas -- The British Empire as a product of continental drift -- Infectious disease and the demography of the Atlantic peoples -- Virgin soil epidemics as a factor in the Aboriginal depopulation of America -- "God ... would destroy them, and give their country to another people ..." -- Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience -- The demographic effect of American crops in Europe -- Demography, maize, land, and the American character -- Reassessing 1492 -- Life (with all its problems) in space
Subjects
- Human ecology -- History.
- Epidemics -- History.
- Europeans -- Migrations.
- Imperialism -- History.
- Human geography.
- Biogeography.
- Ecology -- history.
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- Disease Transmission, Infectious -- history.
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- Disease Outbreaks -- history.
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- Food Supply -- history.
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- Emigration and Immigration -- history.
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- Demography.
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