Technology, disease, and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories

Folger bibliographic ID: 129610
Folger call number: E18.82 .T38 2001
Folger holdings ID: 121361

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

European overseas expansion and the military revolution / Jeremy Black -- 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 / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins and Dale Standen

Extended title: Technology, disease, and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories / edited by George Raudzens
Alternate titles: Guns and germs theories

America Diseases and history Indians Europe Military art and science

associated with: Raudzens, George, 1938-