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Hardcover The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874 Book

ISBN: 0774807555

ISBN13: 9780774807555

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874

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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence examines theintroduction of infectious diseases among the Indians of the NorthwestCoast culture area (present-day western Oregon, Washington, and BritishColumbia, and southeast Alaska) in the first century of contact and theeffects of these new diseases on Native American population size,structure, interactions, and viability. The emphasis is on epidemicdiseases and specific epidemic episodes. In most parts of...

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