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Author: William Hardy McNeill

📘 Plagues and peoples by William Hardy McNeill

Covers the historical impact of bubonic plague (including the Black Death), cholera, malaria, smallpox, and other diseases.

First publish date: 1976

Authors: William Hardy McNeill

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