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A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs
“Superbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific and historical research, and his confident authorial voice is sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman.”—The Times (U.K.)
According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires.
Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through sixty thousand years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the world’s major religions.
By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective past—and urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story.
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“[Kennedy] wrangles an astonishing breadth of material into easily accessible, plain prose. . . . Even readers familiar with the material will find [Pathogenesis] fascinating. . . . Kennedy will leave readers galvanized by the time they flip to the last page, having assured us that we could win the narrative back from germs—if we’re able to muster the political will to do so. Pathogenesis puts us in our rightful tiny place in the universe as this great, big—and terrifying, at times—world spins. But, Kennedy reminds us, we are not helpless.” —The Washington Post
“Full of amazing facts . . . Pathogenesis doesn’t only cover thousands of years of history—it seeks radically to alter the way the reader views many of the (often very well-known) events it describes.” —The Guardian
“Well-timed . . . [and] compelling . . . Kennedy’s book manages to end on a somewhat hopeful note. Yes, our trajectory is defined by microbes. But it’s also influenced by our reactions to them—and our acknowledgment of their power.” —The Atlantic
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This guide will take you on a journey across time, from the late 1400s to the very end of the 19th century, as well as across the globe, from Europe, across Africa, to the American continents. It will tell you the story of human greed and heartlessness toward fellow human beings, and it will lead you through the painful and often macabre voyage of the transatlantic slave trade. You’ll learn why and how the slave trade began, where most of the enslaved people came from and where most of them were shipped to, the European nations that participated in the slave trade, and more.
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Eye-Opening
- De D. Hutchins en 05-27-21
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- De: Mike Davis
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.
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Mike Davis on Audible!
- De Nathan D. Backlund en 09-02-17
De: Mike Davis
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The Fate of Rome
- Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
- De: Kyle Harper
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes listeners from Rome's pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted.
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Interesting and worthwhile
- De B. Coleman en 06-15-19
De: Kyle Harper
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Civilization
- The West and the Rest
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Niall Ferguson
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing proportion of people now work for Western-style companies, study at Western-style universities, vote for Western-style governments, take Western medicines, wear Western clothes, and even work Western hours. Yet six hundred years ago the petty kingdoms of Western Europe seemed unlikely to achieve much more than perpetual internecine warfare. It was Ming China or Ottoman Turkey that had the look of world civilizations.
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Thoughtful analysis of the ascendancy of the West.
- De Patrick en 05-25-13
De: Niall Ferguson
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History of California
- A Captivating Guide to the History of the Golden State, Starting from When Native Americans Dominated Through European Exploration to the Present
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
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California’s transformation into the most populous state in America and the home of some of the country’s richest citizens spread amongst Silicon Valley and Hollywood, was certainly no accident. California has always been one of the most diverse and multicultural states in the United States, way before it was a state at all, and even before the arrival of the Europeans.
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Solid overview of the long history of this state
- De username en 07-04-21
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The Human Tide
- How Population Shaped the Modern World
- De: Paul Morland
- Narrado por: Zeb Soanes
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The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. These are the headlines of history, but they cannot be properly grasped without understanding the role that population has played. The Human Tide shows how periods of rapid population transition - a phenomenon that first emerged in the British Isles but gradually spread across the globe - shaped the course of world history.
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dry
- De Ralph C. en 05-02-19
De: Paul Morland
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
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A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis.
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performance....
- De Bonnie en 11-15-22
De: Amitav Ghosh
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How the West Won
- The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Modernity developed only in the West - in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization.
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We all have a bias
- De Adam Shields en 04-21-15
De: Rodney Stark
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
- A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
- De: Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism.
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A remarkable exposé & synthesis of the Ponzi scheme that capitalism is and always has been.
- De Scott en 02-10-18
De: Raj Patel, y otros
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- De: Howard W. French
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
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Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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American History World History Our History
- De Bill en 06-13-22
De: Howard W. French
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Against the Grain
- A Deep History of the Earliest States
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative.
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World without Women
- De Paul Richards en 04-28-18
De: James C. Scott
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Why the West Rules - for Now
- The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
- De: Ian Morris
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 24 h y 35 m
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Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West’s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the 20th century secured its global supremacy.
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Compelling and infuriating take at World History
- De Skeptical en 09-11-11
De: Ian Morris
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The Journey of Humanity
- The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
- De: Oded Galor
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Why are humans the only species to have escaped—only very recently—the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so unequally around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today? Galor’s gripping narrative explains how technology, population size, and adaptation led to a stunning “phase change” in the human story a mere two hundred years ago.
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promoting innovation and industrial disease
- De Anonymous User en 01-18-24
De: Oded Galor
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
- De: David S. Landes
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 21 h y 47 m
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes' acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance.
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A detailed explanation
- De Kaarlis en 12-07-21
De: David S. Landes
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In the Wake of the Plague
- The Black Death and the World It Made
- De: Norman F. Cantor
- Narrado por: Bill Wallace
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the final, awful end by respiratory failure are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was, and how it made history, remain shrouded in a haze of myths.
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Don't waste time or money
- De Anne en 01-22-09
De: Norman F. Cantor
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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill’s highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating to listen to.
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A Plague On All Our Houses
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Plagues upon the Earth
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The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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Midnight in Chernobyl
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April 25, 1986 in Chernobyl was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.
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Agrippina
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The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty - and of Rome itself, at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless, and political zenith. In her own time, she was recognized as a woman of unparalleled power.
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Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, exploring exciting new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mothers' skin.
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Ruined it at the end
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The American Plague
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In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism," it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
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Yellow Fever in Memphis
- De Kevin P Key en 04-13-20
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- Lynn
- 06-13-24
Give Us Science Not Opinion
Liked: first half of book was very informative.
Disliked: second half of book was largely the author's political opinions. it's not that I necessarily disagree with his opinions. It's that I didn't purchase the book for them.
Author did an adequate job narrating.
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- Jennifer S
- 07-23-24
Very interesting reas
This is a great non-fiction book that reads like fiction. Read this book, even if you're not big into science, this is a great book.
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- DDC
- 05-09-23
Good start, poor ending
I got the book to learn more about pathogens and their impact on human development, and found it addressed that well. But towards the end, the author injected his political views which detracted from the topic and prevented a more thoughtful analysis of trends in pathogens. Moreover, the author’s political views were naive and lacked common sense, which in turn, retrospectively tainted the whole book. I will not recommend this book.
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- Julie Burton
- 06-09-24
Full existence in hours
Well it’s hypothetical and I appreciate that and also the magnitude of research it’s based on is so impressive and makes me try to pull it apart more—very time consuming and not really a negative.
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- Kavya T Rao
- 04-30-23
Great look at history and historical impacts of pathogens
Very high-level, but interesting and broad-ranging. Made me think about vaccine equity vs patents. Recommend mosquito by Timothy winegard for a deeper look into the impact of pathogens on human history.
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- Ricardo
- 05-16-23
Historically and scientifically accurate. Excellent pace
The attention to details is fantastic! From bringing up specific historians points of view to the many aspects of how much each plague affected their contemporary societies, this book deserves a second+ readings.
It felt almost like version of Sapiens but with a focus on the pathogens that made/make us.
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- Alan
- 06-03-23
Brilliant
Great . An unbelievable amount of unknowns. Terrific , a lot of great unknowns. Really recommended. Yes!
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- Choogi
- 04-23-23
Another Academic with a Hidden Agenda
Pathogenesis begins with great storytelling of our anthropological history woven with the apparent history of major disease outbreaks and the potential effects these diseases had on our history. But there is a point at which anthropology is put aside, and Kennedy’s personal opinions become the underlying narrative.
Whereas earlier parts of the book address a comprehensive view of the world’s humans and subpopulations, the later chapters focus on certain subpopulations and diseases as if to jump on the bandwagon of recent events to spark emotional response. Kennedy jumps the rails of telling of possible correlations between rises and falls of societies with disease outbreaks and takes a sharp turn into pushing personal ideals about how societies should govern public health. The author is entitled to his opinions, but he is far from qualified to dictate how world health should be governed. Further, the information presented in the book is insufficient for drawing such conclusions as it leaves out presentation and discussion of many other diseases (including those made by our own presence on earth), socio-economic situations, and world events that deserve consideration.
Readers should keep in mind that many academics such as Kennedy conduct their research and write papers and books such as this one insulated within their university walls with a goal to gain attention to bring funding to their universities to ‘further their research’ (i.e., keep their jobs). It really is no different than the journalist who is skilled at writing gripping headlines that drive the consumers to click on the links of their articles just to get the ad views that drive their profits.
I thank the author for some delightful storytelling of anthropological history, but if you are looking for scientific information on the origin and history of diseases, as the title would lead you to believe, this book is not for you.
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- Barb in WI
- 07-04-23
Worth a read especially the early chapters
Early chapters fascinating. Political commentary of the later chapters obscures the argument and makes the book less compelling.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-26-24
Very interesting and elucidate book.
Very interesting and elucidate book. The story of the world is told by multiple perspectives and fundamented with scientific data. Great book. This would greatly benefit from having been read/performed by an experienced narrator. Great writer does not make a great narrator. Still a nice experience (due to the good quality writing).
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