Plagues and People Paperback / softback - 1977
by William H. McNeill
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- Title Plagues and People
- Author William H. McNeill
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1977-10-11
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780385121224
- ISBN 9780385121224 / 0385121229
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.6 x 0.77 in (19.81 x 14.22 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Civilization - History, Epidemics - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 76002798
- Dewey Decimal Code 614.49
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From the jacket flap
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.
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.