By William H. McNeill
Upon its unique ebook, Plagues and Peoples was once an instantaneous severe and well known luck, delivering a notably new interpretation of global historical past as obvious during the remarkable impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of affliction on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by way of smallpox up to via the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the historical past of affliction is the background of humankind. With the identity of AIDS within the early Eighties, one other bankruptcy has been extra to this chronicle of occasions, which William McNeill explores in his new creation to this up-to-date editon.
Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that infrequent booklet that's as interesting because it is scholarly, as interesting because it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and hard achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it really is crucial studying, providing a brand new standpoint on human historical past.
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