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Plagues and Peoples

By William H. McNeill

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| Paperback | 9780385121224

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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquestContinue

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated editon.

Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.

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  • Epidemic Man

    Most professional historians resemble small peasants, intensively cultivating tiny tracts of the past; their labor is arduous and indispensable, but if they pause to raise their heads their vision is usually bounded by their neighbor’s fence. Some, b ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 369 Pages
  • Edition: Updated
  • ISBN-10: 0385121229
  • ISBN-13: 9780385121224
  • Publisher: Anchor
  • Pub date: Feb 01, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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