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Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620

✍ Scribed by Noble David Cook

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Leaves
321
Series
ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Category
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✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of tables, figures, and maps (page vi)
Preface (page ix)
Introduction: The problem in perspective (page 1)
Part I: Peru's preconquest population
I The ecological approach (page 14)
2 Population and archaeology (page 30)
3 Depopulation ratios (page 41)
4 Estimates from social organization (page 55)
5 Disease mortality models (page 59)
6 Census projections (page 75)
7 Conclusion (page 108)
Part II: Demographic collapse
8 First contact: north coast (page 119)
9 Center of Spanish control: middle coast (page 145)
10 Disease, earthquakes, and droughts: south coast (page 165)
11 Intermediate area: northern highlands (page 178)
12 Mining and population in the central sierra (page 199)
13 The Indian heartland: southern highlands (page 211)
14 An overview (page 247)
Abbreviations used in notes (page 256)
Notes (page 257)
Bibliography (page 281)
Index (page 298)

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