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Endemics, Epidemics, and Pandemics in World History

Endemics, Epidemics, and Pandemics in World History

Benjamin Reilly

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2025
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Historia
ISBN:
9781032592565
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Epidemics, Endemics, and Pandemics in World History provides a comprehensive account of human interactions with diseases from the stone age to COVID-19. It takes a thematic approach, exploring the two-way relationship between pathogens and human development throughout history.

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