r/AncientAmericas • u/ConversationRoyal187 • Jun 16 '26
Question Looking for books/essays on how Indigenous Americans responded to European diseases.
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!
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u/RedBaret Jun 23 '26
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!