Description - Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450-1800 by Stephen V. Beck
This volume contains 15 articles dealing with medical and demographic consequences of the expansion of Europe into the New World and South America. The articles focus on subjects such as the origin of syphilis; the depopulation of Hispaniola; the firts New World pandemic and the fall of the great Indian empires; Andean epidemic history; the effects of disease on the slave trade; smallpox and the Indians in the American colonies; the significance of disease in the extinction of the New England Indians; and the effects of smallpox in Aboriginal Australia. The volume also looks at the effects of scurvy on European sailors on their voyages of expansion as a result of vitamin C deficiency.
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