false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170343104m/46725.jpg 46725 5 No small themes for historian William McNeill: he is a writer of big, sweeping books, from <b>The Rise of the West</b> to <b>The History of the World</b>. <b>Plagues and Peoples</b> considers the influence of infectious diseases on the course of history, and McNeill pays special attention to the Black Death of the 13th and 14th centuries, which killed millions across Europe and Asia. (At one point, writes McNeill, 10,000 people in Constantinople alone were dying each day from the plague.) With the new crop of plagues and epidemics in our own time, McNeill's quiet assertion that "in any effort to understand what lies ahead the role of infectious disease cannot properly be left out of consideration" takes on new significance. 1121110 1976 Plagues and Peoples total:238|5:60|4:99|3:59|2:17|1:3| 238 910 416 33 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:21:11 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:26:04 -0700 2009 Guns Germs and Steel, this book is all about the germs, and about more than just the modern era: there are interesting comments on the Black Death and the rise of "childhoo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 20:29:31 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 23:10:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 19:44:04 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 16:13:58 -0700 2008
However, I hold several reservations concerning his guesswork where information wa...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 13 14:47:38 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 19:34:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 05:59:59 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 06:02:34 -0700 2009 3 0 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979 Thu Oct 01 21:47:50 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 21:51:39 -0700 2009 2
I should skim it a bit....to see.....what today's knowledge of DNA has added to the events covered in this book]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 25 16:28:09 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 25 16:54:16 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 16 10:17:39 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 10:18:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 04 22:39:38 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 22:45:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:29:25 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:34:31 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 26 15:56:33 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 14 13:10:35 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 28 09:45:30 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 09:46:35 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 08:51:26 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 08:51:55 -0700 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 15:56:48 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 15:00:41 -0700 2007 Guns, Germs & Steel dragged for me: fewer plagues, more peoples, including long drawn-out bits on macroparasitism (i.e. people making life suck for people). In this particular case, it was just interesting enough to keep me goin...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 08:22:21 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 14 07:54:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980 Tue Feb 19 08:39:43 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 08:42:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 20:04:06 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 14:06:25 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Apr 16 01:25:09 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 22:24:58 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jul 04 19:35:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 19:35:50 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 20:47:37 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 20:52:13 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=46725