Przeczytaj Books Plagues and Peoples
By William H. McNeill
Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical
and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as
seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and
psychological--of disease on cultures. 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, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the
identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this
chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to
this updated editon.Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively
readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is
scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and
challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a
new perspective on human history.
