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Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America
Alfred Crosby's 1976 essay in the William and Mary Quarterly.
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- 1976
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- How are Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America and … connected?
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- Alfred W. Crosby Scholarship & press 1
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- 1976 Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America
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Virgin Soils Revisited, The William and Mary Quarterly, 2003.
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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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