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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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