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In Invisible Invaders, Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceded European settlement.

About the Author

Judy Campbell was educated at the University of Melbourne. After travelling in the United States and Mexico, where smallpox destroyed the Aztec Empire, she taught in the Department of History at the Australian National University. During that period she researched and began writing about Aboriginal smallpox, and has since continued this work privately.

Reviews

"This is a study of international importance. Judith Campbell has produced the most scientifically informed and comprehensively researched work we have yet seen on the role of Old World diseases in the destruction of the indigenous peoples of Australia. Dr Janet McCalman Centre for the Study of Health and Society, University of Melbourne