Beyond Germs : Native Depopulation in North America.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword - John Ware -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Paul Kelton, Alan C. Swedlund, and Catherine M. Cameron -- 1. Death, Uncertainty, and Rhetoric - David S. Jones -- 2. Population Decline and Culture Change in the American Midcontinent: Bridging the Prehistoric and Historic Divide - George R. Milner -- 3. Colonialism and Decline in the American Southeast: The Remarkable Record of La Florida - Clark Spencer Larsen -- 4. Beyond Epidemics: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Pueblo-Spanish Encounters in the American Southwest - Debra L. Martin -- 5. Identity Erasure and Demographic Impacts of the Spanish Caste System on the Indigenous Populations of Mexico - Gerardo Gutiérrez -- 6. Contagion, Conflict, and Captivity in Interior New England: Native American and European Contacts in the Middle Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, 1616-2004 - Alan C. Swedlund -- 7. The Effects of Warfare and Captive-Taking on Indigenous Mortality in Postcontact North America - Catherine M. Cameron -- 8. Remembering Cherokee Mortality During the American Revolution - Paul Kelton -- 9. Quality of Life: Native Communities Within and Beyond the Bounds of Colonial Institutions in California - Kathleen L. Hull -- 10. The Pestilent Serpent: Colonialism, Health, and Indigenous Demographics - James F. Brooks -- Contributors -- Index.

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