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Title:

Technology, disease, and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories / edited by George Raudzens.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Diseases and history--America.
Indians--First contacts with Europeans.
Military art and science--Europe--History.
Imperialism.
America--History--To 1810.
Europe--Territorial expansion.
Europe--Colonies--America.

Other Authors:

Raudzens, George, 1938-

Notes:

Includes index and bibliographies.

Contents:

"Black with canoes". Aboriginal resistance and the canoe: Diplomacy, trade and warfare in the meeting grounds of Northeastern North America, 1600-1821 / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins and Dale Standen. Outfighting or outpopulating? Main reasons for early colonial conquests, 1493-1788 / George Raudzens -- Conflict and synthesis: frontier warfare in North America, 1513-1815 / Armstrong Starkey -- The long conquest: collaboration by native Andean elites in the colonial system, 1532-1825 / David Cahill -- The impact of disease / Francis Brooks -- Pathogens, places and peoples: geographical variations in the impact of disease in early Spanish America and the Philippines / Linda Newson -- The Iberian advantage / Lawrence Clayton -- "Black with canoes". Aboriginal resistance and the canoe: Diplomacy, trade and warfare in the meeting grounds of Northeastern North America, 1600-1821 / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins and Dale Standen.

Series:

History of warfare v. 2

ISBN:

9789004117457
9004117458

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47440511

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)