Download or read book Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries written by George Raudzens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.