Born to Die

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Born to Die is written by Noble David Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521622085 (ISBN 10) and 9780521622080 (ISBN 13).

Noble David Cook explains, in vivid detail and sweeping scope, how the conquest of the New World was achieved by a handful of Europeans--not by the sword, but by deadly disease. The Aztec and Inca empires with their teeming millions were destroyed by a few hundred Europeans whose most important weapons, though the conquerors did not realize it at the time, were diseases previously unknown in the Americas. The end result of the colonizing experience in the Americas, whether of the Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, or French, was the collapse of native society.