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<p>Upon its original publication, <i>Plagues and Peoples</i> 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.</p> <p>Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, <i>Plagues and Peoples</i> 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.</p> <p>"...an intriguing work, referred to by the New Yorker as `revolutionary'...examines how plagues &amp; diseases have affected civilizations &amp; the history of the

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Author

William Hardy McNeill; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780844664927

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Science

Rating

3.89 / 5 (3,084 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14