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Disease and Demography in the Americas. John W. Verano and Douglas H. Ubelaker, ed. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Maps, photos, and references, ? + 294 pp. $52.00.
Disease and Demography in the Americas addresses an important issue in history of European-Native American interaction: what was the disease impact of European contact? A collection of papers came from a 1989 Smithsonian sponsored conference "Disease and Demography in the Americas, Changing Patterns Before and After 1492," this edited volume addresses disease and demography on a regional basis. The first section, "Disease before and after contact" confronts the evidence of prehistoric and historic disease in North America, while the second section, "Population size before and after contact" deals with Native American population reduction at the time of contact and...