05260cim a2200421 i 4500 2789868479 TxAuBib 20260622120000.0 r 260609s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781666665581 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1666665584 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT16865546 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda McNeill, William H, author. Plagues and Peoples [Hoopla] / William H. McNeill. Unabridged. [United States : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, 2024. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 46 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Douglas James. The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact-political, demographic, ecological, and psychological-of disease on cultures. A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work. -The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples is a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill's highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating reading. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is essential reading-that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. This title is masterfully narrated by Douglas James. The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact-political, demographic, ecological, and psychological-of disease on cultures. A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work. -The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples is a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill's highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating reading. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is essential reading-that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. This title is masterfully narrated by Douglas James. The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact-political, demographic, ecological, and psychological-of disease on cultures. A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work. -The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples is a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill's highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating reading. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is essential reading-that rare book. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Diseases. History. Social sciences. World history. Health. Audiobooks. James, Douglas, reader. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/16861196?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh2017 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/drs_9781666665581_180.jpeg Cover image