- History, Epidemics, Civilization, Civilización
Covers the historical impact of bubonic plague (including the Black Death), cholera, malaria, smallpox, and other diseases.
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Earnest, cool, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- William Hardy McNeill
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell, Peter Smith Publisher, Blackwell
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Korean, English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9789864790784
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“Before fully human populations evolved, we must suppose that like other animals our ancestors fitted into an elaborate, self-regulating ecological balance.”
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