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]