Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Author | : George Raudzens |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004473882 |
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This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.