Plagues and Peoples

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Plagues and Peoples

Cover of the first edition
Author	William H. McNeill
Language	English
Subjects	epidemiological history
Genre	Non-fiction
Published	1976
Publisher	Anchor Books, Garden City, New York
Publication place	US
Pages	369
ISBN	978-0-385-12122-4

Plagues and Peoples is a book on epidemiological history by historian William H. McNeill published by Anchor Books in 1976. It was a critical and popular success, offering a radical new interpretation of the extraordinary impact of infectious disease on cultures as a means of enemy attack. The book ranges from examining the effects of smallpox in Mexico, the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe.^[1]

With the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, a new preface was added to the book.