International: The Demise Of The American Indios

International: The Demise Of The American Indios Massimo Livi Bacci, 2011   This symposium takes as its point of departure two books by Massimo Livi Bacci, Conquest and El Dorado in the Marshes, published in english in 2008 and 2010. Livi Bacci assesses widely varying estimates of the demographic dimensions of the collapse of the native populations following their contact with europeans and elucidates the proximate causes of that catastrophe. Drawing on models that combine production...

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