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Cherokee medicine, colonial germs : an indigenous nation's fight against smallpox, 1518-1824
- Title
- Cherokee medicine, colonial germs : an indigenous nation's fight against smallpox, 1518-1824 / Paul Kelton.
- Author
- Kelton, Paul
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
- Supplementary Content
- Book review (H-Net)
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 281 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- New directions in Native American studies ; volume 11
- Uniform Title
- New directions in Native American studies ; v. 11.
- Subjects
- Smallpox > history
- Indianer
- Smallpox Vaccine > history
- Cherokee Indians > Colonization > Health aspects > History
- Southeastern United States > epidemiology
- Cherokee Indians > Medicine > History
- Medizin
- Nordamerika
- Colonialism > history
- Impfung
- Pocken
- Smallpox > Southern States > History
- Kolonisation
- History, Modern 1601-
- Cherokee
- History, 16th Century
- Cherokee Indians > Diseases > History
- Smallpox vaccine > Southern States > History
- Indians, North American > history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.
- Contents
- Arrival -- Response -- War -- Revolution -- Vaccine.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-449
- ISBN
- 9780806146881
- 0806146885
- LCCN
- 2014030514
- OCLC
- 890436715
- Author
- Kelton, Paul, author.
- Title
- Cherokee medicine, colonial germs : an indigenous nation's fight against smallpox, 1518-1824 / Paul Kelton.
- Publisher
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New directions in Native American studies ; volume 11New directions in Native American studies ; v. 11.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-449