Plagues and Peoples

Name: Plagues and Peoples
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ISBN: 9780385121224

ISBN-10: 0385121229

ISBN-13: 9780385121224

Edition: 1989

Authors: William McNeill

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/11/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.97" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction



Man the Hunter



Breakthrough to History



Confluence of the Civilized Disease Pools of Eurasia: 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200



The Impact of the Mongol Empire on Shifting Disease Balances, 1200-1500



Transoceanic Exchanges, 1500-1700



The Ecological Impact of Medical Science and Organization Since 1700


Appendix


Notes


Index