Technology, disease, and colonial conquests, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : essays reappraising the guns and germs theories / edited by George Raudzens.
European overseas expansion and the military revolution / Jeremy Black -- Outfighting or outpopulating? Main reasons for early colonial conquests, 1493-1788 / George Raudzens -- Conflict and synthesis: frontier warfare in North America, 1513-1815 / Armstrong Starkey -- The long conquest: collaboration by native Andean elites in the colonial system, 1532-1825 / David Cahill -- The impact of disease / Francis Brooks -- Pathogens, places and peoples: geographical variations in the impact of disease in early Spanish America and the Philippines / Linda Newson -- The Iberian advantage / Lawrence Clayton -- "Black with canoes". Aboriginal resistance and the canoe: Diplomacy, trade and warfare in the meeting grounds of Northeastern North America, 1600-1821 / David McNab, Bruce Hodgins and Dale Standen.