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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... brought down on the head of Athens and the failure of Hagnon's army besieging Potidaea due to the plague . Hagnon's Athenian reinforcements infected the troops already present at the siege who had been plague - free . Thucydides says ...
... brought down on the head of Athens and the failure of Hagnon's army besieging Potidaea due to the plague . Hagnon's Athenian reinforcements infected the troops already present at the siege who had been plague - free . Thucydides says ...
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... brought relief . 14. Death usually occurred on the seventh or eighth day despite the apparent haleness of the body . 15. Survivors of this crisis went on to dysentery . 16. Those who recovered were immune to further attacks but ...
... brought relief . 14. Death usually occurred on the seventh or eighth day despite the apparent haleness of the body . 15. Survivors of this crisis went on to dysentery . 16. Those who recovered were immune to further attacks but ...
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... brought death . . . in some cases when the swelling rose to an unusual size and discharge of pus had set in , it came about that they escaped from the disease and survived . Procopius was no Thucydides , even if he was somewhat more ...
... brought death . . . in some cases when the swelling rose to an unusual size and discharge of pus had set in , it came about that they escaped from the disease and survived . Procopius was no Thucydides , even if he was somewhat more ...
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... brought in outsiders to make up the population losses , as did the Byzantine Emperors . He writes that Constantine V transferred large groups Armenians , Greeks and Syrians to Constantinople , even though these areas were also ...
... brought in outsiders to make up the population losses , as did the Byzantine Emperors . He writes that Constantine V transferred large groups Armenians , Greeks and Syrians to Constantinople , even though these areas were also ...
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... brought them to an end ; as an argument it is too general for accuracy . Biraben and Le Goff have a series of excellent maps showing the progress of the sixth and seventh century plague through western Europe and the Near East , except ...
... brought them to an end ; as an argument it is too general for accuracy . Biraben and Le Goff have a series of excellent maps showing the progress of the sixth and seventh century plague through western Europe and the Near East , except ...
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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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