Demographic collapse : Indian Peru, 1520-1620
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Demographic collapse : Indian Peru, 1520-1620
(Cambridge Latin American studies, 41)
Cambridge University Press, 2004
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While many scholars have been interested in the size of the Indian population of the Americas at the time of first contact with Europeans, this book, first published in 1982, was the first to make a thorough examination of the question. Focusing on Peru, Professor Cook estimates population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation ratios, and census projection. He also analyses the catastrophic population decline that resulted from contact with Europeans, and compares this experience with that of the coastal region and the Andean highlands.
Table of Contents
- List of tables, figures and maps
- Preface
- Introduction: the problem in perspective
- Part I. Peru's Preconquest Population: 1. The ecological approach
- 2. Population and archaeology
- 3. Depopulation ratios
- 4. Estimates from social organization
- 5. Disease mortality models
- 6. Census projections
- 7. Conclusion
- Part II. Demographic Collapse: 8. First contact: north coast
- 9. Center of Spanish control: middle coast
- 10. Disease, earthquakes, and droughts: south coast
- 11. Intermediate area: northern highlands
- 12. Mining and population in the central sierra
- 13. The Indian heartland: southern highlands
- 14. An overview
- Abbreviations used in notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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