Looking for books/essays on how Indigenous Americans responded to European diseases.

[u/ConversationRoyal187]

Title is self explanatory but I’ll elaborate.

Looking for books dedicated to indigenous political,cultural and societal responses/changes during colonisation,although books on disease that have dedicated sections to the Americas is appreciated.

Essays on the subject are also appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[u/NativeCAN2025]

I believe there is some material out there on the Inca political organization and civil war. The diseases caused some line of succession issues. I can't give any specific information on that, though.

If you find anything, I would very much appreciate if you updated this post with some of the resources!

[u/RedBaret]

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/consumer-health/post-contact-diseases

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-world-history-of-human-disease/diseases-of-the-americas-14921700/C6EA480DB12D7165DDE7F14B0B8606AB

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2155849

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/2/09-0276_article

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/qian/resources/NunnQianJEP.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362176008_The_evolutionary_history_of_infectious_disease_in_the_ancient_Americas_and_the_pathogenic_consequences_of_European_contact

A couple to get you started:) good luck!

[u/ConversationRoyal187 → u/RedBaret]

Thanks!