Deadly medicine : Indians and alcohol in early America /

Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade's devastating impact on the Indian commun...

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Main Author: Mancall, Peter C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
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