Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs
Paul Kelton · 2015
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"How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that's precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the "virgin soil thesis," or the widely held belief that Natives' lack of immunities and their inept healers were responsible for their downfall. Eschewing the metaphors and hyperbole routinely associated with the impact of smallpox, he firmly shifts the focus to the root cause of indigenous suffering and depopulation - colonialism writ large; not disease." -- dust jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN
- 9780806146881
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