Conquest: The Destruction of the American Indios

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4000-6

Hardcover

368 pages

January 2008, Polity

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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A major reinterpretation of the European conquest of the Americas which ranges over the whole of the Americas, from North America through Central America and the Caribbean to South America
Focuses on the demographic consequences of the conquest and the massive destruction of native populations through diseases like smallpox
The book is very clearly written and well illustrated with original documents left by native populations which show their harsh subjection at the hands of the European conquerors
Written by one of the world’s leading demographic historians