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From Columbus to Covid-19: Amerindian Antecedents to the Global Pandemic
- Journal of Latin American Geography
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, July 2020
- pp. 177-185
- 10.1353/lag.2020.0077
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abstract:
The eruption and spread of Covid-19 affords us the opportunity to look back and reflect on the role disease has played in shaping Indigenous destinies in the Americas. This essay illuminates problems of data, chronology, impact, and identification in four geographical settings—Hispaniola, Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador/Peru—and situates these regional findings, historically, in hemispheric and global context.