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"[A] valuable and very welcome addition to the literature. For anyone doubting the impact of settler society on Native worlds of the Northwest Coast, it should be required reading."

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"[T]he most comprehensive, detailed monograph on the impact of imported diseases within a single region of North America. Boyd makes an important contribution in having so meticulously documented the medical, demographic, and cultural responses to catastrophic epidemic disease and high mortality…"

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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence

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    A Paperback / softback by Robert T. Boyd

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 30/04/2021
      ISBN13: 9780295749181, 978-0295749181
      ISBN10: 0295749180
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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      "[A] valuable and very welcome addition to the literature. For anyone doubting the impact of settler society on Native worlds of the Northwest Coast, it should be required reading."

      * BC Studies *

      "[T]he most comprehensive, detailed monograph on the impact of imported diseases within a single region of North America. Boyd makes an important contribution in having so meticulously documented the medical, demographic, and cultural responses to catastrophic epidemic disease and high mortality…"

      * Ethnohistory *

      "A data-rich, well-written, authoritative work."

      * Choice *

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