{"product_id":"the-tainted-gift-barbara-alice-mann-9780313353383","title":"The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Alice Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0313353387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313353383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009 pg. 2","brand":"Barbara Alice Mann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119578116351,"sku":"9780313353383","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e35f60e0-1b0a-4b46-bd91-71451aefe373.jpg?v=1687410000","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tainted-gift-barbara-alice-mann-9780313353383","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}