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

Publication/Creation:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

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

Series Titles:

History of warfare, v. 2
History of warfare ; v. 2.

Related/Included Titles:

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" / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins and Dale Standen.

Variant Titles:

Guns and germs theories

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Additional Author/Creators:

Raudzens, George, 1938-

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Diseases and history--America--History
Indians--First contact with other peoples
Military art and science--Europe--History
Population--history
Colonialism--history
Disease Outbreaks--history
America--History--To 1810
Europe--Territorial expansion
Europe--Colonies--America

Description/Summary

Table of 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" / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins and Dale Standen.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xvii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990000913910302486

ISBN:

9789004117457
9004117458

OCLC Number:

47440511

Barcode:

010000670912