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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... Middle East , is less ready to accept all of Russell's views . Dols ( 1 ) writes : Josiah Russell has also investigated the Plague of Justinian within the scope of his pioneering work on medieval demographic history ; however there is a ...
... Middle East , is less ready to accept all of Russell's views . Dols ( 1 ) writes : Josiah Russell has also investigated the Plague of Justinian within the scope of his pioneering work on medieval demographic history ; however there is a ...
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... Middle East ? We have heard of some of the views of Biraben and Le Goff and of Russell ( 1968 ) . Dols ( 1977 ) is only willing to commit himself to the statement that : " The plague of Justinian may have played a role in the history of ...
... Middle East ? We have heard of some of the views of Biraben and Le Goff and of Russell ( 1968 ) . Dols ( 1977 ) is only willing to commit himself to the statement that : " The plague of Justinian may have played a role in the history of ...
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... Middle East , across the Near East , North Africa and into Spain and west to the Indus – the Arabs . Russell ( 1968 ) notes that , during the successful years of conquest in the west by Belisarius ' troops , the proportion of barbarians ...
... Middle East , across the Near East , North Africa and into Spain and west to the Indus – the Arabs . Russell ( 1968 ) notes that , during the successful years of conquest in the west by Belisarius ' troops , the proportion of barbarians ...
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... Middle East . Dols agrees that the plague did bring about the lowest level of Mediterranean population since the rise of the Roman Empire ; however , as already noted he believes that the proposed consequences of that loss outrun the ...
... Middle East . Dols agrees that the plague did bring about the lowest level of Mediterranean population since the rise of the Roman Empire ; however , as already noted he believes that the proposed consequences of that loss outrun the ...
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... Middle East . Dols spends much of his consideration on the psychological , mental and religious reactions of the population to the plague , and makes the point that the Muslim reaction of ' Insh Allah ' in more or less sophisticated ...
... Middle East . Dols spends much of his consideration on the psychological , mental and religious reactions of the population to the plague , and makes the point that the Muslim reaction of ' Insh Allah ' in more or less sophisticated ...
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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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