Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America

Introduction / Paul Kelton, Alan C. Swedlund, and Catherine M. Cameron

Death, uncertainty, and rhetoric / David S. Jones

Population decline and culture change in the American midcontinent : bridging the prehistoric and historic divide / George R. Milner

Colonialism and decline in the American southeast : the remarkable record of La Florida / Clark Spencer Larsen

Beyond epidemics : a bioarchaeological perspective on Pueblo-Spanish encounters in the American southwest / Debra L. Martin

Identity erasure and demographic impacts of the Spanish caste system on the indigenous populations of New Mexico / Gerardo Gutiérrez

Contagion, conflict, and captivity in interior New England : Native American and European contacts in the middle Connecticut River valley of Massachusetts, 1616-2004 / Alan C. Swedlund

The effects of warfare and captive-taking on indigenous mortality in postcontact North America / Catherine M. Cameron

Remembering Cherokee mortality during the American Revolution / Paul Kelton

Quality of life : native communities within and beyond the bounds of colonial institutions in California / Kathleen L. Hull

The pestilent serpent : colonialism, health, and indigenous demographics / James F. Brooks.