The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence
Title The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence PDF eBook
Author Robert Thomas Boyd
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 436
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN 9780295978376

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In the late 1700s, when Euro-Americans began to visit the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures--among them the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookans--with a population conservatively estimated at over 180,000. A century later only about 35,000 were left. The change was brought about by the introduction of diseases that had originated in the Eastern Hemisphere, such as smallpox, malaria, measles, and influenza. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence examines the introduction of infectious diseases among the Indians of the Northwest Coast culture area (present-day Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains, British Columbia west of the Coast Range, and southeast Alaska) in the first century of contact and the effects of these new diseases on Native American population size, structure, interactions, and viability. The emphasis is on epidemic diseases and specific epidemic episodes. In most parts of the Americas, disease transfer and depopulation occurred early and are poorly documented. Because of the lateness of Euro-American contact in the Pacific Northwest, however, records are relatively complete, and it is possible to reconstruct in some detail the processes of disease transfer and the progress of specific epidemics, compute their demographic impact, and discern connections between these processes and culture change. Boyd provides a thorough compilation, analysis, and comparison of information gleaned from many published and archival sources, both Euro-American (trading-company, mission, and doctors' records; ships' logs; diaries; and Hudson's Bay Company and government censuses) and Native American (oral traditions and informant testimony). The many quotations from contemporary sources underscore the magnitude of the human suffering. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence is a definitive study of introduced diseases in the Pacific Northwest. For more information on the author go to http: //roberttboyd.com/

Solomon's Prescription for the Removal of the Pestilence, Or, The Discovery of the Plague of Our Hearts, in Order to the Healing of that in Our Flesh

Solomon's Prescription for the Removal of the Pestilence, Or, The Discovery of the Plague of Our Hearts, in Order to the Healing of that in Our Flesh
Title Solomon's Prescription for the Removal of the Pestilence, Or, The Discovery of the Plague of Our Hearts, in Order to the Healing of that in Our Flesh PDF eBook
Author Matthew Mead
Publisher
Pages 104
Release 1665
Genre Dissenters, Religious
ISBN

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Revelation

Revelation
Title Revelation PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Canongate Books
Pages 60
Release 1999-01-01
Genre Bibles
ISBN 0857861018

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The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence

The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence
Title The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence PDF eBook
Author Robert Boyd
Publisher UBC Press
Pages 448
Release 2001-01-01
Genre
ISBN 9780774807562

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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence examines the introduction of infectious diseases among the Indians of the Northwest Coast culture area (present-day western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, and southeast Alaska) in the first century of contact and the effects of these new diseases on Native American population size, structure, interactions, and viability. The emphasis is on epidemic diseases and specific epidemic episodes. In most parts of the Americas, disease transfer and depopulation occurred early and are poorly documented. The many quotations from contemporary sources underscore the magnitude of the human suffering. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence is the definitive study of introduced diseases in the Pacific Northwest.

Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest

Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest
Title Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest PDF eBook
Author Robert Thomas Boyd
Publisher
Pages 301
Release 1999
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 9780870717987

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Life in a Time of Pestilence

Life in a Time of Pestilence
Title Life in a Time of Pestilence PDF eBook
Author Ruth MacKay
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 291
Release 2019-08-15
Genre History
ISBN 1108498205

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Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.

Faith in the Time of Plague

Faith in the Time of Plague
Title Faith in the Time of Plague PDF eBook
Author Stephen M. Coleman
Publisher
Pages
Release 2021-05-07
Genre
ISBN 9781733627252

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