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Numbers from Nowhere - The American Indian Contact Population Debate (Paperback)
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Numbers from Nowhere - The American Indian Contact Population Debate (Paperback)
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In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed
regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of
this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492
was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In
Numbers From Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which
these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably
wrong. Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources,
Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout
history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely
subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he
questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and
scientific scholarship.
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