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Plagues and Peoples

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Plagues and Peoples
Cover of the first edition
AuthorWilliam H. McNeill
LanguageEnglish
Subjectsepidemiological history
GenreNon-fiction
Published1976
PublisherAnchor Books, Garden City, New York
Publication placeUS
Pages369
ISBN978-0-385-12122-4

Plagues and Peoples is a book on epidemiological history by historian William H. McNeill published by Anchor Books in 1976. It was a critical and popular success, offering a radical new interpretation of the extraordinary impact of infectious disease on cultures as a means of enemy attack. The book ranges from examining the effects of smallpox in Mexico, the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe.[1]

With the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, a new preface was added to the book.

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  1. ^ Walker, Frank B. (September 11, 1976). "Contagious conquerors". The Montreal Star. p. 37.

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