{"product_id":"9780385121224","title":"Plagues and Peoples","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work.\"\u003c\/b\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003ePlagues and Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews)\u003c\/i\u003e. Upon its original publication, \u003ci\u003ePlagues and Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, \u003ci\u003ePlagues and Peoples \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading—that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening.","brand":"William McNeill","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  1977-10-11","offer_id":44159979979007,"sku":"9780385121224","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7abb22e6-800b-4652-bfc5-9704d10150d9.jpg?v=1689105412","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780385121224","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}