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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... Spread of the Black Death in Europe 34 66 III . Smallpox in South America 128 IV . Smallpox in North America 134 V. The first epidemics of Cholera out of India VI . Cholera 166 186 Acknowledgements A work such as this requires the ...
... Spread of the Black Death in Europe 34 66 III . Smallpox in South America 128 IV . Smallpox in North America 134 V. The first epidemics of Cholera out of India VI . Cholera 166 186 Acknowledgements A work such as this requires the ...
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... spread from there into Egypt itself and Lybia and much of the territory of the King of Persia . In the city of Athens it appeared suddenly , and the first cases were among the population of Piraeus , so that it was supposed by them that ...
... spread from there into Egypt itself and Lybia and much of the territory of the King of Persia . In the city of Athens it appeared suddenly , and the first cases were among the population of Piraeus , so that it was supposed by them that ...
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... spreading as it is , can doubt the ability of an epidemic of a disease to spring up de novo , whether the underlying organism existed previously or not . What remains certain is that we have a clear case of a disease affecting history ...
... spreading as it is , can doubt the ability of an epidemic of a disease to spring up de novo , whether the underlying organism existed previously or not . What remains certain is that we have a clear case of a disease affecting history ...
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... spread all over the Campagna , killing tens of thousands daily ( ? ) . Some have described this outbreak as malaria consequent on the destruction of the drainage systems . This is dubious and will be discussed in a later chapter on ...
... spread all over the Campagna , killing tens of thousands daily ( ? ) . Some have described this outbreak as malaria consequent on the destruction of the drainage systems . This is dubious and will be discussed in a later chapter on ...
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... spread among a still relatively sparse population . The Littmans conclude that even at a 7-10 % death - rate the Antonine plague was not a decisive event in Roman history without giving any reasons for such a dogmatic conclusion . All ...
... spread among a still relatively sparse population . The Littmans conclude that even at a 7-10 % death - rate the Antonine plague was not a decisive event in Roman history without giving any reasons for such a dogmatic conclusion . All ...
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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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