A Plague of Sheep

This text is about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the 16th-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows ho... » 

This text is about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the 16th-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World species aided European expansion. «