Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population DebateUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1998 - Počet stran: 532 In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers from Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong. Interpreting the archaeological as well as the historical evidence, Henige concludes that the task of assigning meaningful numbers for the American Indian contact population is an impossible one. |
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Do Numbers Lie? | 3 |
The Historical Career of One Number | 17 |
Higher Numbers Higher Ground | 23 |
Damning the Torpedoes | 29 |
Giving Disease a Bad Name | 66 |
Rashomon the Chronicler | 88 |
Antipodean Antics | 113 |
Evading History through Language | 133 |
Colonial Cloning | 192 |
The Jury Will Disregard | 205 |
By Wonder Inflamed | 243 |
Epidemic Hyperbole | 255 |
Careful Errors | 264 |
Numbering the ImaginaryImagining Numbers | 276 |
How Many Wrongs Make a Right? | 293 |
Numbers Do Lie | 303 |
Rescuing History from the Sources | 146 |
Fragments in Search of Predispositions | 154 |
Contact Does Not Equal Contagion | 167 |
Surplus to Requirements | 184 |
Notes | 317 |
Abbreviations | 425 |
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