Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation's Fight Against Smallpox, 1518-1824, Paperback - Paul Kelton

Reducere. How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Pa...

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This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines.

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Publisher: Monash University PublishingAuthor(s): Joel Stephen BirnieNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 23Cover type...

Reducere. Like many viruses, smallpox is highly contagious. It's also dreadful, deadly, and thanks to microscopes and modern technology--now officially eradi...

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The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully ...

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A remarkable partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya has built one of the ...

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Presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), a framework for promoting critical consciousness toward decolonization efforts among ...

Colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carter's Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthri...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas ThomasIllustration(s): 181 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest...

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Reducere. The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know...

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A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagionPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): John Fabi...

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With a New Introduction by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D., author of Microbes: The Life-Changing Story of Germs For more than 3000 years, hundreds of mi...