# Plagues and Peoples

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- Book: [Plagues and Peoples](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-h-mcneill/plagues-and-peoples) ([Plagues and Peoples.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-h-mcneill/plagues-and-peoples.md))
- Authors: [William H. McNeill](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-h-mcneill)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-8512-122-4
- Pages: 368
- Published: 1977-10-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The 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...