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Epidemics and Enslavement Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715 / Paul Kelton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelton, Paul.
- Series:
- Indians of the Southeast
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--South Atlantic States.
- Slavery.
- Smallpox--South Atlantic States--Epidemiology.
- Smallpox.
- Indians of North America--South Atlantic States--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians, Treatment of--South Atlantic States.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Indians of North America--Diseases--South Atlantic States.
- South Atlantic States--History.
- South Atlantic States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tracing the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of the Southeast, this work concludes that, while indigenous peoples suffered from an array of ailments before contact, Natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts in the sixteenth century.
- Contents:
- Disease ecology of the Native Southeast, 1000-1492
- The protohistoric puzzle, 1492-1659
- Slave raids and smallpox, 1659-1700
- The epidemiological origins of the Yamasee War, 1700-1715.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611092245
- 9781281092243
- 128109224X
- 9780803215573
- 0803215576
- OCLC:
- 476101982
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