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Even today, the threat of unstoppable plague is ever-present. Historically, in Europe, the most devastating plagues were between the Black Death and the Great Plague of London. This fascinating book shows that these were not bubonic plague as previously thought, and provides food for thought for social and biological scientists.
Biology of Plagues: Evidence from Historical Populations eBook
World History International: World History Essays From Prehistory To The Present
Sigmund Freud said: "The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a rock was the true founder of civilization." This is so because civilization is a triumph of mind over matter, of reason over instinct and of the distinctly human over mankind's animal nature.
Oswald Spengler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics , science , and art . He is best known for his book The Decline of the West ( Der Untergang des Abendlandes ), published in 1918 and 1922, where he proposed a new theory , according to which the lifespan of civilizations is limited and ultimately they decay. In 1920 Spengler produced Prussiandom and Socialism ( Preußentum und Sozialismus ), which argued for an organic, nationalist version of socialism and authoritarianism.
Bubonic plague is a zoonotic disease , circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas , [ 1 ] and is one of three types of infections caused by Yersinia pestis (formerly known as Pasteurella pestis ), which belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae . Without treatment, the bubonic plague kills about two out of three infected humans within 4 days. The term bubonic plague is derived from the Greek word βουβών , meaning "groin."
Bubonic plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diseases in industrial cities in the Industrial Revolution
Disease accounted for many deaths in industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution .
Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541750 eBook
Retrieved 2010-08-26. ^ Quotes from book "Plague and the End of Antiquity" Lester K. Little, ed., Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750, Cambridge, 2006.
Medieval Sourcebook: Boccaccio: The Decameron - Introduction
I say, then, that the years of the beatific incarnation of the Son of God had reached the tale of one thousand three hundred and forty eight, when in the illustrious city of Florence, the fairest of all the cities of Italy, there made its appearance that deadly pestilence, which, whether disseminated by the influence of the celestial bodies, or sent upon us mortals by God in His just wrath by way of retribution for our iniquities, had had its origin some years before in the East, whence, after destroying an innumerable multitude of living beings, it had propagated itself without respite from place to place, and so calamitously, had spread into the West.