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Plagues and Peoples

By William H. McNeill

Book information

Publisher
Anchor Books
Year
1998
ISBN
9780385121224, 0385121229
LCC
RA649 .M3 1989
Open Library ID
OL17884881M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
8 MB (8605636 bytes)
Edition
Updated
Pages
340\349
Topic
Medicine
DPI
600
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Медицинские дисциплины;История медицины

Description

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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