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Record Nr.

UNISA996248102603316

Autore

McNeill William Hardy <1917-2016>

Titolo

Plagues and peoples / / William H. McNeill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Anchor Books Doubleday, 1998, c1976

ISBN

0-307-77366-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p. )

Disciplina

614.4/9

Soggetti

Epidemics - History

Civilization - History

Public Health

Health & Biological Sciences

Epidemiology & Epidemics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Man the hunter -- Breakthrough to history -- Confluence of the civilized disease pools of Eurasia: 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200 -- The impact of the Mongol Empire on shifting disease balances, 1200-1500 -- Transoceanic exchanges, 1500-1700 -- The ecological impact of medical science and organization since 1700.