Disease and History, by Cartwright, Frederick F. and Michael D. Biddiss
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Disease and History, by Cartwright, Frederick F. and Michael D. Biddiss. Barnes & Noble: New York, 1991. Edition: Later printing of a Barnes & Nobel REPRINT. ISBN: 0880296909. Hardcover, 5.75 by 8.5 inches, 248 pages. Quarter bound in red cloth over black, paper-covered boards; gilt lettering on spine. Includes Bibliography and Index.

Condition: Fine in Near Fine jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing. Book otherwise appears unread.

Contents: From the jacket

The impact of disease on history had been underestimate by historians; this book sets out to correc tht error. [The authors] show how disease (and the conquest of disease) has frequently changed the course of civilization.

Many intiguing questions are raised by this new approach to history: was malaria more catastrophic for the Roman Empire than the attacks of the Goths and the Vandals? Did the Black Death hasten the end of feudalism? Did syphilis turn the initially benevolent reign of Iven the Terrible into bloodthirsty tyranny? Was Cortez most powerful ally in his decimation of the Aztecs the diseases the Spaniards brought to Mexico? Did Queen Victoria, by transmitting hemophilia to the Romanov's, contribute to the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1917?

DISEASE AND HISTORY is an important and fascinating book; one which will be of interest to students of history as well as medicine.