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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Contrary to popular belief, Cantor concludes that the Black Death was probably two diseases at once--bubonic plague and anthrax. The author shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as specific individuals, and thus profoundly altered history. Benefits of the outbreak, including explosions in artistic and scientific thought, are also described.
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
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"For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion--quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history-from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism-have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social...
10) The Black death
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Examines the causes, effects, and legacy of the epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the fourteenth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"In 1918, an influenza pandemic killed tens of millions of people worldwide. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic killed more than 1 million people and upended normal life for months. This topical series compares the events and conditions surrounding the 1918 pandemic to those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging text and powerful photographs explore how the pandemics have informed our culture, medical advancements, and crisis response"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history. In this compact book, David Herlihy makes bold yet subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about this disastrous period. As in a finely tuned detective story, he upturns intriguing bits of epidemiological evidence. And, looking beyond the view of the Black Death as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy sees in it the birth of technological advance as societies struggled...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For most people today, the death and destruction brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. But a look at the historical record tells a different story. Catastrophic pandemics have occurred throughout history, and many have resulted in economic, political, and cultural upheaval. This book examines pandemics through history and the changes they brought.
Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Hays (history, Loyola U. Chicago) describes, in a style accessible to high school students and up, the history of 50 epidemics in world history, from an unspecified disease that swept through Athens in 430-427 BC to a number of epidemics still plaguing the world today. Each chapter is organized into sections describing "when and where," historical significance, background, how it was understood at the time, responses, and unresolved historical issues....
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of nineteenth-century New York to modern Mumbai, showing how the gradual scientific understanding of TB allowed it to be controlled and cured in the West, but not in poorer nations, and examines how a new,agressive, and drug-resistant strain of TB has taken over.
20) Black death
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Describes the social and economic conditions in medieval Europe at the outbreak of the Black Death and the causes and effects of the epidemic.
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