A population history of the missions of the Jesuit province of Paraquaria /:

Scholars have debated the demographic consequences for the indigenous populations of the Americas of 1492, the beginning of sustained contact between the Old and New Worlds. Some have hypothesized an initial die-off of indigenous population resulting from the introduction of highly contagious crowd...

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1. Verfasser: Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Harry), 1938- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
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Zusammenfassung:Scholars have debated the demographic consequences for the indigenous populations of the Americas of 1492, the beginning of sustained contact between the Old and New Worlds. Some have hypothesized an initial die-off of indigenous population resulting from the introduction of highly contagious crowd diseases such as smallpox and measles. So-called ""virgin soil"" epidemics caused catastrophic mortality that culled the indigenous populations, and some scholars such as the late Henry Dobyns hypothesized a rate of decline of around 90 percent as epidemics spread across the Americas like a miasmic
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