Technology, disease, and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
Subtitle: essays rappraising the guns and germs theories
By: edited by George Raudzens.
Contributors: Raudzens, George, 1938-
Publisher: Brill Academic; Brill Academic Pub; Brill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Diseases and history -- America -- History.; Indians -- First contact with Europeans.; Military art and science -- Europe -- History.; America -- History -- To 1810.; Europe -- Territorial expansion.; Europe -- Colonies -- America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: European overseas expansion and the military revolution / Jeremy Black; title: Outfighting or outpopulating? : main reasons for early colonial conquests, 1493-1788 / George Raudzens; title: Conflict and synthesis : frontier warfare in North America, 1513-1815 / Armstrong Starkey; title: The long conquest : collaboration by native Andean elites in the colonial system, 1532-1825 / David Cahill; title: The impact of disease / Francis Brooks; title: Pathogens, places and peoples : geographical variations in the impact of disease in early Spanish America and the Philippines / Linda Newson; title: The Iberian advantage / Lawrence Clayton; title: "Black with canoes". Aboriginal resistance and the canoe : diplomacy, trade, and warfare in the meeting grounds of northeastern North America, 1600-1821 / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins, and Dale Standen.