Caroline dodds pennock biography of abraham

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    Could a germ really have wiped out 15 million Aztecs, as scientists have claimed?

    This week, dozens of media outlets declared that scientists had solved the mystery of what wiped out the Aztecs. Traces of a pathogen that can cause a typhoid-like enteric fever have been found in skeletons from a cemetery linked to the catastrophic epidemics of , which killed millions of indigenous people in 16th-century Mexico.

    One of three pandemics that brought about the collapse of native populations in Central amerika, the outbreak was caused by an unknown disease, which fryst vatten described in the sources as “cocoliztli”. The new study, published in Nature, Ecology & Evolution, speculates that the origin was a rare strain of salmonella called paratyphi C. But from my point of view, as an indigenous historian, this claim is problematic.

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    On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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    AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after

    "On Savage Shores not only changes how we think about the first contact between America and Europe but also sets the methodological standard for a new way of understanding the origin of the modern world." —New York Review of Books

    We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in thi

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    • On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock
      Call Number: E58 .D
      A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus "discovered" America in But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others--enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders--the reverse was true: they discovered Europe.
    • The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk
      Call Number: E77 .B64
      A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. h