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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>List of Illustrations</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>vii</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>ix</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Introduction</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(5)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Old World Epidemiology to 1500</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>6</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Universal Nature of Human Responses to Disease</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>9</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Origins and History of Human Disease in the Old World</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>15</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Significance of the Old World Disease Experience</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>30</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Amerindians and Disease Before 1492</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>32</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(28)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Dating the Arrival of Humans in the New World</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>33</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Health and Disease Before 1492</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>36</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Patterns of Mortality among Hunter-Gatherers</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>39</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Patterns of Mortality among Sedentary Agriculturalists</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>45</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Colonialism, Disease, and the Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and the Central Andes</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>60</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(23)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Introduction of Old World Diseases to the Americas</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>60</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Smallpox Epidemic of 1518</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>63</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(5)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Mexico</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>68</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Central America</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>71</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Andes</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>75</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Old World and the New</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>79</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Colonialism and Disease in Brazil and North America</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>83</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Brazil</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>84</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(6)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>North America</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>90</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(1)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Florida and the Southeast</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>91</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>94</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Northeastern United States and Canada</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>96</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(3)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>California and the Pacific Northwest</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>99</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Great Plains</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>103</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Brazil and North America in Comparative Perspective</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>105</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>New World Epidemics and European Colonialism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>109</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(38)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Native American and European Responses to Epidemic Disease</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>109</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Impact of European Colonialism</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>124</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(1)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Motives and Methods: Military Conquest</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>124</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(11)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Indigenous Slavery</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>135</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Indigenous Labor and Migration</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>139</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Conclusion</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>143</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Appendix. The Demographic Debate</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>147</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Epilogue</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>173</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(5)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Notes</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>178</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Bibliography</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>194</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>208</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

ix, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

A pest in the land : new world epidemics in a global perspective