Title Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador / Suzanne Austin Alchon

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Description viii, 151 pages : maps ; 24 cm Series Cambridge Latin American studies ; 71 Cambridge Latin American studies ; 71 Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Along the avenue of volcanoes -- 2. Disease, illness, and healing before 1534 -- 3. Conquest and epidemic disease -- 4. Changing patterns of disease and demography -- 5. Disaster and crisis in the 1690s -- 6. Disease and demographic stagnation -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index Subject Epidemics -- Ecuador -- History. Indians of South America -- Diseases -- Ecuador. Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- History. Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Population. SUBJECT Peru (Viceroyalty) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88192440 -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436 Peru (Viceroyalty) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88192440 -- Population. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006969 Peru -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100224 Peru http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055130 -- Population. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006969 LC no. 91009110 ISBN 0521401860 (hardback)

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