La epidemiología, una propuesta para explicar la despoblación americana

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  • Elsa Malvido Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

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https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2003.i227.552

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High Mortality, Depopulation, New Spain

Abstract


This paper discusses American depopulation during the 16th century in the light of modern epidemiology, concluding that contagious diseases introduced in New Spain by the Spanish Conquest reduced in many ways its native inhabitants as much as 90 per cent, as Borah and Cook’s studies claimed.

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Published

2003-04-30

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Malvido, E. (2003). La epidemiología, una propuesta para explicar la despoblación americana. Revista De Indias, 63(227), 65–78. https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2003.i227.552

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