Paul Kelton
Auteur van Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715
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Paul Kelton is Professor of History at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is the author of Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715.
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Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715 (2007) 37 exemplaren
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs : an indigenous nation's fight against smallpox, 1518-1824 (2015) 21 exemplaren
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Worse yet, the "virgin soil" thesis whitewashes the effects of the violence and oppression inherent in the colonization of the New World.
Dr. Kelton uses the Cherokee as an example of how the traditional narrative of colonization falls apart when asked to answer to the historical resources of a Native people. Moreover, he points out that even the reliable documentary evidence we have from the European colonists themselves doesn't support the "virgin soil" thesis.
If you liked Guns, Germs, and Steel, this book will make you see things in a very different light. This is exactly what good history is supposed to do.… (meer)