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Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450-1800 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450-1800 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
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'Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the
aboriginal.' So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been
considerable discussion concerning their precise demographic
impact, reflected in the articles here, there is no doubt that the
arrival of new diseases with the Europeans (such as typhus and
smallpox) had a catastrophic effect on the indigenous population of
the Americas, and later of the Pacific. In the Americas, malaria
and yellow fever also came with the slaves from Africa, themselves
imported to work the depopulated land. These diseases placed
Europeans at risk too, and with some resistance to both disease
pools, Africans could have a better chance of survival. Also
covered here is the controversy over the origins of syphilis, while
the final essays look at agricultural consequences of the European
expansion, in terms of nutrition both in North America and in
Europe.
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