Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present, D. Ann Herring , Alan C. Swedlund

Автор: Aberth John
Название: Plagues in World History
ISBN: 0742557065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780742557062
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. John Aberth considers not only their varied impact but also the many ways in which people have be...

Автор: Mcneill, William
Название: Plagues and Peoples
ISBN: 0385121229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385121224
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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.