Disease and death in early colonial Mexico : simulating Amerindian depopulation

Author(s)

• Whitmore, Thomas M.

Bibliographic Information

Disease and death in early colonial Mexico : simulating Amerindian depopulation

Thomas M. Whitmore

（Dellplain Latin American studies, no. 28）

Westview Press, 1992

• : alk. paper

Note

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--Clark University

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-254) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study reopens the debate about the size of Mexico's native population before the Spanish conquest and the scale and rate of its decline thereafter.

Table of Contents

• Holocaust or not - the debate on Amerindian depopulation in the 16th century
• simulation method and justification
• historical and simulation comparisons
• interpretations
• major findings and their signficance.

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Details

• NCID: BA21098470
• ISBN:
  • 0813381886
• LCCN: 91018346
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boulder
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 261 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F1219.3.P73
  • DC20 : 305.897/072
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Indians of Mexico -- Population
  • LCSH : Indians of Mexico -- Mortality
  • LCSH : Demographic anthropology -- Computer simulation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03674900