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Europeans with their robust immunity.
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The impact of smallpox and
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measles was greater than that of gunpowder.
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In the New World, you'll be reading about this in
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detail in that wonderful book by Elizabeth Fenn,
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Pox Americana, and you might want to be
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reminded of the simple fact that
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the author was actually a Yalie,
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and that the book that you're reading began life here,
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as a Ph.D. Dissertation.
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In any case, though, I want to have a
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division of labor between the lectures and the reading,