Great Mortality
The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history, even more so now, when the notion of plague—be it animal or human—has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story: how many people died; how farm output and trade declined. But statistics can't convey what it was like to sit in Siena or Avignon and hear that a thousand people a day are dying two towns away. Or to have to chose between your own life and your duty to a m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-224321-8
- EAN: 9780062243218
- Produktnummer: 29237403
- Verlag: Harper Collins
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
John Kelly, who holds a graduate degree in European history, is the author and coauthor of ten books on science, medicine, and human behavior, including Three on the Edge, which Publishers Weekly called the work of an expert storyteller. He lives in New York City.
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