Technology, Deisease and Colonial Conquests
Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Essays Reappraising the Guns and Germs Theories
Edited by George Raudzens
Brill 2003
Stron XVII+304, format: 16x24 cm
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HOW DID EUROPEANS PREVAIL IN CONQUERING the SO-called New World and beyond? For several years scholars have seen an answer to that question in the "Guns and Germs" theories of experts such as Jared Diamond; namely, that because of superior technology and the introduction of catastrophic disease into the Americas, Europeans succeeded in conquering the indigenous peoples and colonizing the Americas. But other historians, including the experts in this volume, think the Guns and Germs theories are oversimplified. Noted military historian George Raudzens assembles an international team of scholars in Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries to look at the other side of the coin. The "conquered" may actually have had superior technology, including better communication and transportation; and the effects of disease were equally devastating upon the invaders and the invaded. Myriad factors not explained by the Guns and Germs theories contributed to the success of European colonization.
CONTENTS
List of Figures vii List of Contributors ix Introduction George Raudzens xi 1. European Overseas Expansion and the Military Revolution Jeremy Black 1 2. Outfighting or Outpopulating? Main Reasons for Early Colonial Conquests, 1[zasłonięte]493-17 George Raudzens 31 3. Conflict and Synthesis: Frontier Warfare in North America, 1[zasłonięte]513-18 Armstrong Starkey 59 4. The Long Conquest: Collaboration by Native Andean Elites in the Colonial System, 1[zasłonięte]532-18 David Cahill 85 5. The Impact of Disease Francis Brooks 127 6. Pathogens, Places and Peoples: Geographical Variations in the Impact of Disease in Early Spanish America and the Philippines Linda Newson 167 7. The Iberian Advantage Lawrence Clayton 211
8. "Black with Canoes". Aboriginal Resistance and the Canoe: Diplomacy, Trade and Warfare in the Meeting Grounds of Northeastern North America, 1[zasłonięte]600-18 David McNab, Bruce Hodgins and Dale Standen 237 Index 293
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2002 by Choice (a publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association) "Raudzens has edited a stunning new collection of essays aimed at reassessing paradigms of conquest that attribute European succeess to superior weaponry or disease...Taken together the eight essays in this collection represent an enormously important new direction in colonialist studies. Highest recommendations for all collections.
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