Armies of Pestilence: The Impact of Disease on HistoryJames Clarke & Company Limited, 15. juni 2004 - 276 sider "We have lived in a world that had, until the arrival in 2020 of the coronavirus Covid-19, not suffered a serious pandemic for a century, and society had almost forgotten the enormous impact created by highly infectious diseases. Infectious diseases, however, played major roles in ending the Golden Age of Athens, wrecked Justinian's plans to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, and killed untold millions in Latin America after the Spanish invasion. Armies of Pestilence explores the impact of these diseases on history. Despite their importance, historians have tended to minimise the role of infectious disease - partly because of a lack of scientific knowledge, and this has resulted in a distorted view both of the past and of the danger of disease to modern society. In Armies of Pestilence, R.S. Bray, a distinguished biologist who here shows himself also to be an able historian, corrects this view. The book surveys the principal epidemics around the world and across the centuries, in each case discussing the origins of the outbreaks, the symptoms, the mortality rate and the social and economic effect. Where particular diseases cannot be identified with certainty the best scholarly opinions are discussed. Bray pays special attention to the infamous Yersina pestis, the organism that caused the Black Death. Other diseases discussed include malaria, smallpox, typhus, cholera and influenza, and AIDS. One of the themes of the book is the relationship between disease and war, with the former often causing more deaths than the latter, as was the case with the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19, at the end of the First World War. The inability of governments to deal effectively with disease is also made clear." |
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... Empire disappeared coincidentally with a wave of disease , possibly smallpox . The evidence for this is tenuous in the extreme and other explanations involving the ' sea people ' , the fall of the Mycaenean civilisation and the invasion ...
... Empire disappeared coincidentally with a wave of disease , possibly smallpox . The evidence for this is tenuous in the extreme and other explanations involving the ' sea people ' , the fall of the Mycaenean civilisation and the invasion ...
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... Empire's death knell and kept Sicily from the hands of Carthage with enormous consequences in the feeding of Rome , the outcome of the Punic wars and Rome's subsequent domination of the Mediterranean . Before one comes to the fall of ...
... Empire's death knell and kept Sicily from the hands of Carthage with enormous consequences in the feeding of Rome , the outcome of the Punic wars and Rome's subsequent domination of the Mediterranean . Before one comes to the fall of ...
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... Empire When the Roman Empire and its fate are mentioned the name of Gibbon inevitably arises and Gibbon was no friend to any overemphasis on disease as a contributory factor in the fall of the Roman Empire . He had his own candidates ...
... Empire When the Roman Empire and its fate are mentioned the name of Gibbon inevitably arises and Gibbon was no friend to any overemphasis on disease as a contributory factor in the fall of the Roman Empire . He had his own candidates ...
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... Empire is the inability to give a certain name to the disease causing them . This precludes any assumptions based on a known epidemiology , though assumptions must be made , if only on suppositions . Five major pestilences have been ...
... Empire is the inability to give a certain name to the disease causing them . This precludes any assumptions based on a known epidemiology , though assumptions must be made , if only on suppositions . Five major pestilences have been ...
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... Empire perished in the pandemic . They feel that the case for believing the disease to have been smallpox is strong despite the equivocal and sketchy description of Galen . The question then arises whether this plague and its ...
... Empire perished in the pandemic . They feel that the case for believing the disease to have been smallpox is strong despite the equivocal and sketchy description of Galen . The question then arises whether this plague and its ...
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CHAPTER 6 The Black Death part 1 | 48 |
CHAPTER 7 The Black Death part 2 | 57 |
CHAPTER 8 The Black Death part 3 | 68 |
CHAPTER 16 Smallpox part 3 | 129 |
CHAPTER 17 Typhus part 1 | 135 |
CHAPTER 18 lYpbus part 2 | 144 |
CHAPTER 19 Cholera part 1 | 154 |
CHAPTER 20 Cholera part 2 | 167 |
CHAPTER 21 Cholera part 3 | 174 |
CHAPTER 22 Cholera part 4 | 187 |
CHAPTER 23 Influenza part 1 | 193 |
CHAPTER 9 Plague The Bombay Plague | 81 |
CHAPTER 10 Malaria part 1 | 89 |
CHAPTER 11 Malaria part 2 | 96 |
CHAPTER 12 Malaria part 3 | 101 |
CHAPTER 13 Yellow Fever | 107 |
CHAPTER 14 Smallpox part 1 | 114 |
CHAPTER 15 Smallpox part 2 | 123 |
CHAPTER 24 Influenza part 2 | 202 |
CHAPTER NOTES | 212 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 237 |
Back Cover | 261 |
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