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The Gifts of Civilization : Germs and Genocide in Hawaii / O. A. Bushnell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780824841799
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1/089994 20
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- ONE. Life and the Land -- TWO. Two Unprovable Hypotheses -- THREE. The Native Medical Profession -- FOUR. Kähuna Lapa'au After 1778 -- FIVE. 1778: An End, and a Beginning -- SIX. Exploration and Exploitation: 1786-1825 -- SEVEN. The Time of Troubles -- EIGHT. The Time of Dying -- NINE. Many Who Came Have Vanished -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary: In nine essays, Bushnell discusses the profound and various impacts on a long isolated people of infectious diseases brought by Captain James Cook in 1778 and subsequent visitors.
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Frontmatter -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- ONE. Life and the Land -- TWO. Two Unprovable Hypotheses -- THREE. The Native Medical Profession -- FOUR. Kähuna Lapa'au After 1778 -- FIVE. 1778: An End, and a Beginning -- SIX. Exploration and Exploitation: 1786-1825 -- SEVEN. The Time of Troubles -- EIGHT. The Time of Dying -- NINE. Many Who Came Have Vanished -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

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In nine essays, Bushnell discusses the profound and various impacts on a long isolated people of infectious diseases brought by Captain James Cook in 1778 and subsequent visitors.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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