Person
Alfred W. Crosby
Historian who in 1976 defined the "virgin soil epidemic".
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authored
- Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America Scholarship & press 1
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Virgin Soils Revisited, The William and Mary Quarterly, 2003.
Scholarship & press
Crosby actually downplayed the “genetic weakness hypothesis” and instead emphasized the many environmental factors that might have contributed to American Indian susceptibility to Old World diseases
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