Plagues
Last update: 06 Nov 2003 12:54First version:
- Recommended:
- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
- Ewald, The Evolution of Infectious Disease
- Stephen Johnson, The Ghost Map
- Seth A. Marvel, Travis Martin, Charles R. Doering, David Lusseau, M. E. J. Newman, "The small-world effect is a modern phenomenon", arxiv:1310.2636
- William McNeill, Plagues and Peoples
- Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History
- To read:
- John Arrizabalaga, John Henderson and Roger French, The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe
- Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492--1650
- Alfred W. Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
- Bernard Dixon, Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World
- Laurie Garrett. The Coming Plague
- Huppert, After the Black Death
- Andrea Kitta, The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore
- George C. Kohn, Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence
- Morse (ed.), Emerging Viruses
- Andrew T. Price-Smith, Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization (2008)
- Daniel T. Reff, Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
- Heather Schell, "Outburst: A Chilling True Story about Emerging Virus Narratives", Configurations 1997, 5:93
- Justin K. Stearns, Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean
- Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS
- Priscilla Wald, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
- Watts, Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism
- Willis, Yellow Fever Black Goddess
