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Plagues and Peoples

by: McNeill, W.

Price: 18,00 EURO

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Category: Ancient Medicine
Code: 30054
ISBN-13: 9780140551396 / 978-0-14-055139-6
ISBN-10: 0140551395 / 0-14-055139-5
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 1976
Publication Place: London
Binding: Paper
Pages: 330
Book Condition: Good
Comments: A fascinating account of the history of disease and its impact on social and cultural life

Plagues and peoples

Author:William Hardy McNeill

330 pages ; 20 cm


Summary:This book describes the dramatic impact of infectious diseases on the rise and fall of civilizations. Professor McNeill, through an accumulation of evidences demonstrates the central role of pestilence in human affairs and the extent to which it has changed the course of history.

 

Contents:
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

Subjects:
Civilization Effects of epidemics to 1975
Epidemics Social aspects
Epidemics Social aspects History
History


Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. Anchor Press, 1976
 
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Plagues and Peoples

by: McNeill, W.

  • ISBN-13: 9780140551396 / 978-0-14-055139-6
  • ISBN-03: 0140551395 / 0-14-055139-5
  • Penguin Books, London, 1976

Price: 18,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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