Contents
Foreword - John Ware
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Paul Kelton, Alan C. Swedlund, and Catherine M. Cameron
1. Death, Uncertainty, and Rhetoric - David S. Jones
2. Population Decline and Culture Change in the American Midcontinent: Bridging the Prehistoric and Historic Divide - George R. Milner
3. Colonialism and Decline in the American Southeast: The Remarkable Record of La Florida - Clark Spencer Larsen
4. Beyond Epidemics: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Pueblo-Spanish Encounters in the American Southwest - Debra L. Martin
5. Identity Erasure and Demographic Impacts of the Spanish Caste System on the Indigenous Populations of Mexico - Gerardo Gutiérrez
6. Contagion, Conflict, and Captivity in Interior New England: Native American and European Contacts in the Middle Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, 1616–2004 - Alan C. Swedlund
7. The Effects of Warfare and Captive-Taking on Indigenous Mortality in Postcontact North America - Catherine M. Cameron
8. Remembering Cherokee Mortality During the American Revolution - Paul Kelton
9. Quality of Life: Native Communities Within and Beyond the Bounds of Colonial Institutions in California - Kathleen L. Hull
10. The Pestilent Serpent: Colonialism, Health, and Indigenous Demographics - James F. Brooks
Contributors
Index