Fascinating book. Thank you for putting this on my radar.
Fascinating book. Thank you for putting this on my radar.
This was a swift audio history of the world through the lens of infectious disease. I never considered how the Palatine and Ciprian plagues likely influenced the rise of Christianity. The book starts slowly with Prehistoric and Neolithic plagues but the pace picks up when people formed settlements and began growing crops. 🦠
I listened to this book and it was really good. It's fascinating to me how much viruses and bacteria have shaped history (and current times).
Me at the beginning aware of how long it‘s been since I was in a biology class.
46/150 This book isn't what I was expecting, from the title. I thought the author was going to discuss eight specific plagues, but instead, the book is a discussion of history as seen through the lens of infectious diseases. It is very informative, but the author allows his own bias and political leanings to influence his conclusions. It would have been better if he had been more objective. 3 ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2
Based on the subtitle, I expected this book to discuss 8 different infectious diseases and how those impacted their moment. Instead, it is a reframing of history with a focus on how infectious disease impacted or even caused certain things. Interesting and engaging, though for me there wasn‘t much here that was new.