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Author: Noble David Cook
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Noble David Cook explains, in vivid detail and sweeping scope, how the conquest of the New World was achieved by a handful of Europeans--not by the sword, but by deadly disease. The Aztec and Inca empires with their teeming millions were destroyed by a few hundred Europeans whose most important weapons, though the conquerors did not realize it at the time, were diseases previously unknown in the Americas. The end result of the colonizing experience in the Americas, whether of the Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, or French, was the collapse of native society.
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- Series: New Approaches to the Americas
- Hardcover: 264 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 13, 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521622085
- ISBN-13: 978-0521622080
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
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Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650, New Approaches to the Americas series, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xv + 248 pp., 9 illustrations, 13 tables, 3 maps, bibliography, index. ISBN 0521622085 (hardcover), 0521627303 (paperback). Cook received his doctorate from the University of Texas in 1973 and currently is Professor of History at Florida International University, Miami, FL, specializing in Colonial Latin America, Early Modern Spain, and historical demography. This is one of 14 books that he has written and is, perhaps, the best known. The title, Born to Die, comes from the Maya region's Annals of the Cakchiques, 1559-1581. Among his other works are Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620 (1981) and The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville (2012), coauthored with Alexandra Parma Cook. His CV is online at [...].
After nearly a quarter century, his 1998 volume remains the most comprehensive book by one or multiple authors on the history of New World diseases in North, Central, and South America, and the demographic collapse of Amerindian America. Indeed, there are many other articles and monographs that consider parts of the New World but none are as far-reaching; for example, Celia Maldonado Lopez's Ciudad de Mexico, 1800-1860: epidemias y poblacion, Mexico, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropologiìa e Historia, 1995) and Clark Spencer Larsen's edited Native American Demography in the Spanish Borderlands (1991). Geographer William Denevan's edited The Native Population of the Americas in 1492, 2nd ed. (1992) is dated as is Russell Thornton's American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492 (1987).
In 1972, Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.
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