Plagues and Peoples J D Beresford writes brilliantly here about the

writes brilliantly here about the passage of time

gender and ethnicity

Braunmuller and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia

the aesthetics of colonialism

By turns poignant and funny

Plagues and Peoples J D Beresford writes brilliantly here about theAuthor Contributor(s): McNeill, William Publisher: Vintage Date: 10 11 1977 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impactpolitical, demographic, ecological, and psychologicalof disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish,