{"product_id":"the-tainted-gift-the-disease-method-of-frontier-expansion-9780313353383","title":"The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barbara Mann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Praeger Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Indigenous - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe speculation that the United States did infect Indian populations has long been a source of both outrage and skepticism. Now there is an exhaustively researched exploration of an issue that continues to haunt U.S.-Native American relations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarbara Alice Mann's \u003ci\u003eThe Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion\u003c\/i\u003e offers riveting accounts of four specific incidents: The 1763 smallpox epidemic among native peoples in Ohio during the French and Indian War; the cholera epidemic during the 1832 Choctaw removal; the 1837 outbreak of smallpox among the high plains peoples; and the alleged 1847 poisonings of the Cayuses in Oregon. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Mann's work is the first to give one of the most controversial questions in U.S. history the rigorous scrutiny it requires.","brand":"Praeger Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45087768215703,"sku":"9780313353383","price":7643.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780313353383.webp?v=1767266929","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-tainted-gift-the-disease-method-of-frontier-expansion-9780313353383","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}