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330 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0140551395
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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This book describes the dramatic impact of infectious diseases on the rise and fall of civilisations. Plague demoralized the Athenian army during the Peloponnesian war, and ravaged the Roman Empire. In the 16th century smallpox was the decisive ag...
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330 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0140551395
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
This book describes the dramatic impact of infectious diseases on the rise and fall of civilisations. Plague demoralized the Athenian army during the Peloponnesian war, and ravaged the Roman Empire. In the 16th century smallpox was the decisive ag...