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• Title:A pest in the land : New World epidemics in a global perspective / Suzanne Austin Alchon.
  
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• Author/Creator:Alchon, Suzanne Austin.
  
• Published/Created:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA11.DA1 A351 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical geography--Latin America.
  Epidemiology--Latin America.
  Communicable diseases--Latin America--History.
  
• Medical Subjects: Disease Outbreaks--history--Americas.
  Colonialism--history--Americas.
  Communicable Diseases--history--Americas.
  History, 17th Century--Americas.
  History, 18th Century--Americas.
  History, Early Modern 1451-1600--Americas.
  Indians, Central American--history--Americas.
  Indians, North American--history--Americas.
  Indians, South American--history--Americas.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:ix, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-207) and index.
  
• ISBN:0826328709 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0826328717 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Old world epidemiology to 1500
  Amerindians and disease before 1492
  Colonialism, disease, and the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and the Central Andes
  Colonialism and disease in Brazil and North America
  New world epidemics and European colonialism.