Deadly Medicine (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter C. Mancall
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1650-1770
- Setting: The English, French, and Spanish colonies of North America
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Colonialism, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Native Americans or American Indians, England or English people, Alcohol, Drinking or drunkenness, Human behavior, Diseases
- Locales: American colonies
Peter C. Mancall’s Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America examines the effects of the alcohol trade on Native Americans in the colonial era. While other studies of North American Indians acknowledge the problem, Deadly Medicine offers an in-depth, well-researched study. Integrating extensive primary sources from government, church, and private papers as well as mercantile records, Mancall places this crisis for Native Americans within the greater framework of imperial trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this path-breaking work, Mancall...
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