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virgin soil epidemics: a standalone construct

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Environmental history

epidemics among peoples with no prior exposure to a disease, central to the collapse of Indigenous American populations after contact.

In environmental history, virgin soil epidemics refers to epidemics among peoples with no prior exposure to a disease, central to the collapse of Indigenous American populations after contact. This meaning comes from Crosby (1976) in The William and Mary Quarterly.[1]

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References

Crosby, A. W. (1976). Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America. The William and Mary Quarterly, 33(2), 289. https://doi.org/10.2307/1922166

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