- Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd; Auflage: New edition (22. Februar 1979)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0140551395
- ISBN-13: 978-0140551396
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 27,8 x 21,8 x 2,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (11 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 985.117 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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No small themes for historian William McNeill: he is a writer of big, sweeping books, from The Rise of the West to The History of the World. Plagues and Peoples considers the influence of infectious diseases on the course of history, and McNeill pays special attention to the Black Death of the 13th and 14th centuries, which killed millions across Europe and Asia. (At one point, writes McNeill, 10,000 people in Constantinople alone were dying each day from the plague.) With the new crop of plagues and epidemics in our own time, McNeill's quiet assertion that "in any effort to understand what lies ahead the role of infectious disease cannot properly be left out of consideration" takes on new significance.
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This book describes the dramatic impact of infectious diseases on the rise and fall of civilisations. Plague demoralized the Athenian army during the Peloponnesian war, and ravaged the Roman Empire. In the 16th century smallpox was the decisive agent that allowed Cortez with only 600 men to conquer the Aztec empire, whose subjects numbered millions. As recently as 1918-19 an epidemic of influenza claimed twenty-one million victims, and seemed to threaten civilization itself. Diseases such as syphilis, cholera, smallpox and malariahave been devastating to humanity for centuries. Now professor McNeill, through an accumulation of evidence, demonstrates the central role of pestilence in human affairs and the extent to which it has changed the course of history.
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Before fully human populations evolved, we must suppose that like other animals our ancestors fitted into an elaborate, self-regulating ecological balance. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Before fully human populations evolved, we must suppose that like other animals our ancestors fitted into an elaborate, self-regulating ecological balance. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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This book and William Wayne Ferris' Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan 645-900 both came highly recommended by my Asian history professor in college, and both offer fascinating "alternative" insights into why civilizations developed the way they did. It allows "ancient" history to become much more human when we allow ourselves to consider factors such as disease, hunger, and basic greed as motivating factors driving civilizations toward their destiny.
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If you've been enjoying the rash of viral/epidemiological titles such as "Hot Zone", "The Coming Plague" or "Deadly Feasts", you'll find a real gem in "Plagues and Peoples". William McNeill, an author with impeccable credentials, is IMHO, the Marshall McCluhan of epidemiological biology. Like McCluhan, he published this work decades before the subject matter became mainstream. He also comes at the topics he investigates with a fresh and brain-stretching approach.
McNeill presents a history of mankind where every civilization is surrounded by a disease 'gradient'. These gradients interact with one another as one of the significant factors in inter-cultural dominance and expansion. The conquest of the New World takes on a new look as McNeill describes the impact of the European disease gradient on a defenseless North America. He contrasts this with the impact of the African disease gradient on Europeans.
Some of McNeills ideas, such as his analogies between micro-parasites (diseases, bugs, etc.) and macro-parasites (governments, barbarians, raiders, etc.) are still fresh and fascinating. Consider his idea that we accept a government as a low-level parasite so that we minimize the impact of rogue parasites like raiders and such in the same way we allow our bodies to be colonized by benign parasites like E.Coli so that we have fewer niches available to rouge germs like staph and strep. This book is filled with exciting ideas like this.
All in all, the book is very readable, adds greatly to any view of history and creates an excellent foundation for the recent titles in this area.
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This text takes the reader trough the rise and fall of the main ancient empires seen from the perspective of the immune system. How much time did it take for a given parasite and to our ancestors to adapt to each other and how did it shape human history. You will be surprised by the explanatory power of this hypothesis.
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pestilence and the spreading of religion
Disease circulation has shaped many aspects of human affairs, especially religion. Humans are forced to share the world with diseases, and both must continually adapt to live with... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Januar 2000 von todd walker
A highly informative, but complicated book.
I think this book was highly informative, throroughly explaining the course of disease and infections dating back to the very begining of time. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. August 1999 veröffentlicht
A fascinating, but controversial, view of Medical History
McNeill's intriguing book mixes medical and cultural history in a surprisingly effective argument for his thesis. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
An enlightening look at history as a microbiologist
What I enjoyed most was the way I learned about our planets history from his "microparasitic" definition. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
Better than X-files!!
I couldn't put it down. What a thesis. I imagine real historians might fault McNeill for jumping to conclusions, but I didn't care... I loved it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Oktober 1998 von charliem@phegos.com
One of the best books on history AND science extant.
I have given away over a dozen copies of this book over the years. It has changed how I view both history and medicine forever. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. September 1998 von newmark@asia.apgea.army.mil
Marvelous
Quite a read. While some of McNeill's more sweeping conclusions are, I think, premature, this work will definitely make you think. Beautifully written, as well.
Veröffentlicht am 1. Juli 1998 von jfb@wavefront.com
Puts a Thousand Years of History in a Framework
Did you know that cities depended on the countryside to sustain their population
levels until about 1840? Lesen Sie weiter...
levels until about 1840? Lesen Sie weiter...
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