Noble David Cook

Noble David Cook (1941 - April 8, 2024) was a historian and author who studied the history of colonial Peru. He taught at the Florida International University from 1992, and was made a professor emeritus there in 2017.

Career

Cook earnt a master's degree from University of Florida, ^[1] then moved to study at the University of Texas at Austin for a PhD in history under Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz  [ es ]. He graduated in 1972. ^[2] In 1981, Cook published Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520–1620, in which he modelled population decline in and analyzed the demographics of Peru during Spanish colonialism. ^{[3] [4]} He largely wrote the book based on research he conducted in Peru during the 1970s. ^[1]

He taught at University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. ^[5] While there, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991 for his work on Iberian and Latin American History. ^[6] Cook transferred to Florida International University in 1992. ^{[2] [5]} In 2005, he wrote about the Taíno for volume three of the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity . ^[7] In 2007 he was made a professor emeritus at FIU ^[5] and, in 2008, was made an honorary professor of the humanities at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. ^[1]

Personal life

Cook was born in 1941. He was married to Alexandra Parma Cook, and the couple had one child. ^[2] He died on April 8, 2024. A year before his death, he had been diagnosed with cancer. ^[1]

He and his family were close friends with Peruvian historians Franklin Pease García-Yrigoyen  [ es ] and Mariana Mould de Pease  [ es ]. ^[1]

Bibliography

Authored

• ————— (1981). Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520–1620. Cambridge University Press. ^[8]
• ————— (1982). The People Of The Colca Valley: A Population Study. Westview Press. ^{[9] [10]}
• ————— (1998). Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. Cambridge University Press. ^{[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}
• —————; Cook, Alexandra Parma (1991). Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy. Duke University Press. ISBN   978-0-8223-1222-2. ^{[18] [19]}
• ————— (2005). "Taino (Arawak) Indians". In Shelton, Dinah (ed.). Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Vol. 3. Louisiana State University Press.
• —————; Cook, Alexandra Parma (2009). The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville. Louisiana State University Press. ^{[20] [21] [22]}
• —————; Cook, Alexandra Parma (2007). People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru. Duke University Press.
• —————; Cook, Alexandra Parma (2023). Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power. Louisiana State University Press. ^{[23] [24]}

Edited

• —————; Johnson, Lyman L., eds. (1990). Essays on the Price History of Eighteenth-Century Latin America. University of New Mexico Press. ^[25]

References

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2. Lane, Kris (January 2025). "In Memoriam : Noble David Cook (1941–2024)" . The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. 82 (1): 129–131. doi:10.1017/tam.2024.197. ISSN   0003-1615.
3. Denevan, William M. (1983). "Review of Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620" . The Americas. 40 (2): 281–284. doi:10.2307/980770. ISSN   0003-1615.
4. Keith, Robert G. (1983-11-01). "Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620". Hispanic American Historical Review. 63 (4): 772–773. doi:10.1215/00182168-63.4.772. ISSN   0018-2168.
5. "Noble Cook Obituary". Miami Herald . 2024-04-13 – via Legacy.com.
6. "Noble David Cook". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Retrieved 2025-03-28.
7. Shelton, Dinah, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Vol. 1. Macmillan Reference. p. xxvi.
8. Denevan, William M. (1983). "Review of Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620" . The Americas. 40 (2): 281–284. doi:10.2307/980770. ISSN   0003-1615.
9. Tibesar, Antonine (April 1983). "The People of the Colca Valley: A Population Study. By Noble David Cook. [Dellplain Latin American Studies, No. 9] (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982. Pp. xix, 101. No price.)" . The Americas. 39 (4): 584–585. doi:10.2307/981262. ISSN   0003-1615.
10. Davies, Keith A. (1983-11-01). "The People of the Colca Valley: A Population Study". Hispanic American Historical Review. 63 (4): 800–800. doi:10.1215/00182168-63.4.800. ISSN   0018-2168.
11. Alchon, Suzanne Austin (1999-11-01). "Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650". Hispanic American Historical Review. 79 (4): 741–742. doi:10.1215/00182168-79.4.741. ISSN   0018-2168.
12. Watts, Sheldon J. (1999). "Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650 (review)". Journal of World History. 10 (2): 459–461. ISSN   1527-8050.
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15. McNeill, J. R. (1999-04-01). "Noble David Cook. Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650 . (New Approaches to the Americas.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xiii, 248. Cloth $54.95, paper $15.95" . The American Historical Review. 104 (2): 559–560. doi:10.1086/ahr/104.2.559. ISSN   1937-5239.
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17. "Disease and History: Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650" . JAMA. 280 (21): 1873. 1998-12-02. doi:10.1001/jama.280.21.1873-JBK1202-5-1. ISSN   0098-7484.
18. McKnight, Joseph W.; Cook, Alexandra Parma; Cook, Noble David (July 1992). "Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance, A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy" . The American Journal of Legal History. 36 (3): 385. doi:10.2307/845431.
19. Ramirez, Susan E. (1992-04-01). "Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1991. Pp. xvi, 206. $21.95" . The American Historical Review. 97 (2): 520–520. doi:10.1086/ahr/97.2.520. ISSN   1937-5239.
20. Clouse, Michele L. (September 2010). "The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville (review)" . Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 84 (3): 519–520. doi:10.1353/bhm.2010.0008. ISSN   1086-3176.
21. Phillips, Carla Rahn (December 2010). "The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth‐Century Seville . By Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+296. $40.00" . The Journal of Modern History. 82 (4): 976–977. doi:10.1086/656168. ISSN   0022-2801.
22. Harris, A. K. (2011-09-01). "The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville. By Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. x plus 296 pp. $40.00)" . Journal of Social History. 45 (1): 297–298. doi:10.1093/jsh/shr021. ISSN   0022-4529.
23. Jones, Cameron D (2025-03-01). "Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook. Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power " . The American Historical Review. 130 (1): 356–357. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhae505. ISSN   0002-8762.
24. Dyck, Jason (2025-03-01). ": Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power" . The Sixteenth Century Journal. 56 (1): 209–211. doi:10.1086/733692. ISSN   0361-0160.
25. Gootenberg, Paul (1991-05-01). "Essays on the Price History of Eighteenth-Century Latin America". Hispanic American Historical Review. 71 (2): 390–391. doi:10.1215/00182168-71.2.390. ISSN   0018-2168.