Screen LibraryOutbreak：plagues that changed history
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Crown Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 47 p.: col. ill., col. maps ; 31 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0375829865 (trade) 9780375829864 (hbk.) 037592986X (lib. bdg.) 9780375929861 (lib. bdg.) |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.85 |
| Call Number: | I712.85/B259 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 47). Describes symptoms and paths of deadly diseases that have impacted the course of human history. Explores how major medical events and plagues impacted society and forever changed the course of history, including a review of the black plague and its effects on the feudal system and yellow fever and its impact on the slave trade. Did the Black Death destroy the feudal system? Did cholera pave the way for modern Manhattan? Did yellow fever help end the slave trade? Remarkably, the answer to all of these questions is yes. Time and again, diseases have impacted the course of human history in surp |