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Beyond germs: native depopulation in north americachallenges the virgin soil hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of north america. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the new world was caused primarily by diseases brought by european colonists that infected native populations lacking immunity to foreign pathogens.
Feb 18, 2017 the native nahuatl term assigned to this outbreak (and several others in i recommend beyond germs: native depopulation in the americas.
Mar 1, 2021 that repeatedly ravaged indigenous americans for centuries after the arrival of 2015 beyond germs: native depopulation in north america.
Apr 21, 2015 book details misconceptions about smallpox's role in native depopulation idea — that it was germs above all else that allowed europeans to come and retained their medical beliefs and practices beyond the colon.
Feb 9, 2016 native american populations declined between 1492 and 1900 ce, eds (2015) beyond germs: native depopulation in north america (univ.
These stark disparities are not because germs affect indigenous bodies beyond germs: native depopulation in north america (tucson: university of arizona.
Beyond germs: native depopulation in north america 9780816535545. There is no question that european colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the ameri.
The concept of “beyond germs” has been applied as an explanation for native depopulation for decades. With new evidence, improved methodologies and a broader assortment of researchers, this concept continues to be reassessed and expanded.
Beyond germs: native depopulation in north america benjamin madley the native american population catastrophe was a formative event in north american history: a cataclysm for indigenous peoples and a central factor in the conquest of the continent.
With the number of emerging infectious diseases climbing and new revelations about plague's past, this book is a timely caution to the rhetoric surrounding so-called virgin soil epidemics.
Millions of indigenous people lived in the americas when the 1492 voyage of the extent and causes of this population decline have long been the subject of disease would establish an equilibrium, its victims living well beyond infe.
Beyond germs: explorations of indigenous depopulation in north america.
Nonetheless, crosby subscribes to the theory of virgin soil epidemics as both a cause of native population decline and european imperial success.
While not wanting to deny the devastating effect of introduced diseases, the contributors to beyond germs also point to the negative impact, at various times and places, of colonial policies including land expropriation, violence and warfare, forced labour and enslavement, population dislocation, and outright genocide. Therefore it is simplistic to blame native depopulation solely on the introduction of european germs, and such an approach absolves settler cultures from acknowledging other.
Beyond germs: native depopulation in north america challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of north america. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the new world was caused primarily by diseases brought by european colonists that infected native populations lacking immunity to foreign pathogens.
Nov 6, 2019 beyond germs: native depopulation in north america.
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Beyond germs: native depopulation in north america challenges the virgin soil hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of north america. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the new world was caused primarily by diseases brought by european colonists that infected native populations lacking immunity to foreign pathogens.
Beyond germs challenges the virgin soil hypothesis that the massive depopulation of the new world was primarily caused by diseases brought by european colonists, which scholars used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous peoples of north america.
Abstract: the 1616-1619 epidemic among the native americans of coastal new in beyond germs: native depopulation in north america (2015), jones.
There is no question that european colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the americas, causing considerable harm and death to indigenous peoples.
The most widely read explanation of this mass depopulation is surprisingly simple. Popular authors and many scholars assert that old world germs did most of the killing because native americans lacked immunity to new, imported pathogens. Its authors collectively assert that “a variety of causes, in addition to germs, can be shown to have affected indigenous morbidity.
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