Technology, disease, and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories

during The 1960s, Scholars Changed Their Explanation For The European Conquest Of The World From Racial And Ethnic Superiority To European Combat Advance Because Of Guns, And Epidemic Disease Caused By The Lack Of Euroasian Immunities In The New World. Historians From Britain, Canada, The Us, And Australia Look At Aspects Of The Conquests That Do Not Support The Theory. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or How did Europeans prevail in conquering the so-called New World and beyond? For several years scholars have seen an answer to that question in the "Guns, Germs, and Steel" theories of experts like Jared Diamond; namely, that because of superior technology and the introduction of catastrophic disease into the Americas, Europeans succeeded in conquering and colonizing the indigenous peoples. But other historians, including the experts in this volume, think the "Guns and Germs" theories too facile and oversimplified. Noted military historian George Raudzens assembles an international team of scholars in Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries to look at the other side of the coin. The "conquered" may actually have had superior technology, including better communication and transportation; and the effects of disease were equally devastating upon the invaders and the invaded. Myriad factors not explained by the Guns and Germs theories contributed to the success of European colonization. This volume keeps an open mind to those. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details. European overseas expansion and the military revolution / Jeremy Black Outfighting or outpopulating? : main reasons for early colonial conquests, 1493-1788 / George Raudzens Conflict and synthesis : frontier warfare in North America, 1513-1815 / Armstrong Starkey The long conquest : collaboration by native Andean elites in the colonial system, 1532-1825 / David Cahill The impact of disease / Francis Brooks Pathogens, places and peoples : geographical variations in the impact of disease in early Spanish America and the Philippines / Linda Newson The Iberian advantage / Lawrence Clayton "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, and Dale Standen.