Plagues and peoples
McNeill, W.H. (1979). Plagues and peoples. Orig. 1976. Penguin Books: [s.l.].
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| Keywords |
Bubonic disease
Epidemiology
History
Maritime transport
Medical science
Smallpox
Trade
Typhoid
Brackish water |
| Abstract |
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. |
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