Comments on: Book review – The Complete History of the Black Death (Second Edition)/2022/11/16/book-review-the-complete-history-of-the-black-death-second-edition/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:02:10 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Earth Transformed: An Untold History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/11/16/book-review-the-complete-history-of-the-black-death-second-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-84486Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:20:17 +0000/?p=18818#comment-84486[…] of resource exhaustion and natural disasters, the Roman Climate Optimum, the Little Ice Age, the Black Death and its long shadow, and sundry natural disasters, including one exceptional flood in Northern […]

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]]>By: Book review – Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/11/16/book-review-the-complete-history-of-the-black-death-second-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-82437Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:40:20 +0000/?p=18818#comment-82437[…] (a section I took particular interest in given I have subjected myself to Benedictow’s book The Complete History of the Black Death), smallpox, typhus, cholera, measles, yellow fever, syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria, […]

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]]>By: The World The Plague Made: The Black Death And The Rise Of Europe - 3 Quarks Daily/2022/11/16/book-review-the-complete-history-of-the-black-death-second-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-61489Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:54:49 +0000/?p=18818#comment-61489[…] event. But what happened next? To give myself some grounding on this topic, I previously reviewed The Complete History of the Black Death. This provided detailed insights into the spread and mortality caused by the Black Death, which was […]

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]]>By: Book review – The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/11/16/book-review-the-complete-history-of-the-black-death-second-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-61374Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:38:16 +0000/?p=18818#comment-61374[…] event. But what happened next? To give myself some grounding on this topic, I previously reviewed The Complete History of the Black Death. This provided detailed insights into the spread and mortality caused by the Black Death, which was […]

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]]>By: THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT – Kim Stanley Robinson (2002) | Weighing a pig doesn't fatten it./2022/11/16/book-review-the-complete-history-of-the-black-death-second-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-60892Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:48:12 +0000/?p=18818#comment-60892[…] point Robinson lets the black death wipe out 99% of the European population, instead of – current best estimate – 65%. What follows is, in 652 pages and 10 chapters, a history of seven centuries “on […]

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]]>By: Book review – Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/11/16/book-review-the-complete-history-of-the-black-death-second-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-58772Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:03:14 +0000/?p=18818#comment-58772[…] The Black Death. It will be interesting to see if the second edition, published this March as The Complete History of the Black Death, has accounted for the flood of new genomic […]

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]]>By: Book review – Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/11/16/book-review-the-complete-history-of-the-black-death-second-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-58771Wed, 16 Nov 2022 09:00:13 +0000/?p=18818#comment-58771[…] as SARS, influenza pandemics in 1957 and 1968, and the Spanish Flu, to historical ones such as the bubonic plague or the plague of Athens, pandemics have long been with us, shaping the course of history. I think […]

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