"Secret Judgments of God"
Subtitle: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Contributors: W. George Lovell (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Published: August 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780806123721
Subjects: Native American Anthropology; Indians; Medical / Nursing; History: American; Population; Epidemiology; Anthropology; History of medicine; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; North America; Social history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Diseases; Congresses; History
First sentence: Study of the history of epidemics among Indians in colonial Spanish America faces the peculiar difficulties inherent in any topic that covers a continent and a half in a wide interdisciplinary range.