Plagues and Peoples
...an intriguing work, referred to by the New Yorker as `revolutionary'...examines how plagues & diseases have affected civilizations & the history of the world.
...an intriguing work, referred to by the New Yorker as `revolutionary'...examines how plagues & diseases have affected civilizations & the history of the world.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780631178804 (0631178805)
Publish date: 1977
Publisher: Basil Blackwell (Oxford)
Pages no: 377
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Health,
Medical,
Anthropology,
Medicine,
World History,
Illness,
Disease
TITLE: Plagues and Peoples AUTHOR: William Hardy McNeill DATE PUBLISHED: 1998, first published 1976 FORMAT: ebook ISBN-13: 9780307773661 ____________________________ DESCRIPTION: "Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering...
Interesting book that shows history in another light.
http://mecurtin.livejournal.com/864799.html?#cutid1
I'm gonna pass for now. It feels a little too much like Guns, Germs and Steel and 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.