Cover of Beyond Germs

Beyond Germs

by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, Alan C. Swedlund

2015 288 pages eng

"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. Contributors argue that blaming g…

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