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Henige, David

 
9780806190365: Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate
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ISBN 10: 0806190361 ISBN 13: 9780806190365
Casa editrice: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2022

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<div><p>In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers From Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong.</p><p>Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and scientific scholarship.</p><p></p></div>

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Editore
Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0806190361
ISBN 13 
9780806190365
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
544
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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