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A pest in the land : new world epidemics in a global perspective
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- Creator
- Suzanne Austin Alchon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Series
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- ix, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826328700, 0826328709, 9780826328717, 0826328717
- OCLC
- ocm50773314
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-207) and index.
- Old world epidemiology to 1500 -- Amerindians and disease before 1492 -- Colonialism, disease, and the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and the Central Andes -- Colonialism and disease in Brazil and North America -- New world epidemics and European colonialism
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- Medical geography -- Latin America.
- Epidemiology -- Latin America.
- Communicable diseases -- Latin America -- History.
- Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Americas.
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- Colonialism -- history -- Americas.
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- Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology -- Americas.
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- History, 17th Century -- Americas.
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- History, 18th Century -- Americas.
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- History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- Americas.
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- Indians, Central American -- history -- Americas.
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- Indians, North American -- history -- Americas.
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- Indians, South American -- history -- Americas.
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