File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9801, message 59


Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:26:12 -0500
From: james m blaut <70671.2032-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: Blaut on Indian death


Doug:

This claim is NOT controversial in the literature. The best known popular
account is Alfred Crosby's THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE. Also see McNeill's
PLAGUES AND PEOPLE. The classic sources are monographs and papers by
Woodrow Borah et al. This fact -- of the crucial importance of disease in
the conquest of the Americas -- was not really known until maybe 20 years
ago. However, this does not obscure the bloody deeds of the Spaniards and
Portuguese.

Jim Blaut   


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