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Plagues and Peoples

✍ Scribed by McNeill, William

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Peter Smith
Year: 2010;2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 352 KB
Edition: 1st
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

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