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Identifying the Killers: Old World Diseases in 16th-Century Meso-America and the Caribbean

Woodrow Borah, Shepard Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

February 25, 1988

About Woodrow Borah

Professor Borah was an expert on the historical demography of Mexico as a colony of Spain. His work demonstrated his deep respect for Mexican and Hispanic culture and its colonial institutions. His research elaborated on the theory that the microbiological unification of the world is the main cause of the genocide in the aboriginal populations in Oceania and America.