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Title: A very good introduction
Review: Upon my first reading of it, I realized what a novel approach to understanding history McNeill was proposing - that disease as much as any other event can be a major influence in historical change. It became the book that sparked an interest in the history of disease and epidemics that persists to this day.While the scope of the book seems broad, McNeill focuses on three specific epidemics )the Plague of Athens, the Bubonic Plague of the 1340's and the introduction of smallpox to the Americas) and the subsequent impact of these epidemics on history. Due to its out-of-the-ordinary approach, this book is really geared towards the serious history-junkie ot the epidemiologically minded.
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