Plagues upon the earth : disease and the course of human history /
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| Author / Creator: | Harper, Kyle, 1979- author. |
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| Imprint: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©2021 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 686 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton economic history of the western world Princeton economic history of the Western world. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12775876 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: microorganisms and macrohistory
- Part I. Fire. Mammals in a microbe's world ; Prometheus among the pirates ; Where the bloodsuckers aren't
- Part II. Farms. Dung and death ; The sneezing ape ; The ends of the old world
- Part III. Frontiers. Conquests and contagions ; The unification of the tropics ; Of lice and men
- Part IV. Fossils. The wealth and health of nations ; Disease and global divergence ; The disinfected planet
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Checklist of major identified species of human pathogens.
