Technology, disease and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories
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Technology, disease and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories
（History of warfare, v. 2）
Brill, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The eight essays in this study reassess evidence about the plausibility of the widely accepted guns and germs theories which put forward firepower advantages and inadvertent disease importation as the two main causes of European imperial expansion overseas during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All argue that these theories are important but oversimplified.
The effectiveness of firepower and disease impacts on specific groups of New World indigenes were always conditioned by time, place, and cultural characteristics. Long range communication control was sometimes more important. Above all, motives driving invasions and conquests were often more influential than means and methodologies.
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Introduction / George Raudzens
1 European Overseas Expansion and the Military Revolution / Jeremy Black 1
2 Outfighting or Outpopulating? Main Reasons for Early Colonial Conquests, 1493-1788 / George Raudzens 31
3 Conflict and Synthesis: Frontier Warfare in North America, 1513-1815 / Armstrong Starkey 59
4 The Long Conquest : Collaboration by Native Andean Elites in the Colonial System, 1532-1825 / David Cahill 85
5 The Impact of Disease / Francis Brooks 127
6 Pathogens, Places and Peoples: Geographical Variations in the Impact of Disease in Early Spanish America and the Philippines / Linda Newson 167
7 The Iberian Advantage / Lawrence Clayton 211
8 "Black with Canoes". Aboriginal Resistance and the Canoe: Diplomacy, Trade and Warfare in the Meeting Grounds of Northeastern North America, 1600-1821 / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins, Dale Standen 237
Index 293
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