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Plagues and Peoples
William McNeill
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 1998
主題
Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
History / World
Social Science / Anthropology / General
ISBN
0385121229
9780385121224
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VzRin_YlpCAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of 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 "a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (
Kirkus Reviews)
. Upon its original publication,
Plagues and Peoples
was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition.
Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable,
Plagues and Peoples
is essential reading—that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening.