Plagues and Peoples

Plagues and PeoplesBy: William McNeill The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impactpolitical, demographic, ecological, and psychologicalof disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." The New Yorker 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, Plagues and Peoples is

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