books.google.com - This study of disease among the native peoples of the New World before and after 1492 challenges many widely held notions about encounters between European and native peoples. Whereas many late twentieth century scholars blamed the catastrophic decline of postconquest native populations on the introduction...http://books.google.com/books/about/A_pest_in_the_land.html?id=YiHHnV08ebkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA pest in the land