The Black Death in the Middle East

1978/01/01 by William H. McNeill, Michael W. Dols · 1 voice · 4 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Social Sciences · #Animal Diversity and Health Studies #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence #Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research

paper · doi:10.2307/203089

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• Ibn Khaldun on Economic Transformation

Discussions

• Oooh and now reading McNeill's review of Dols (doi.org/10.2307/203089). Pretty heartless. But here is why these 50-yr-old debates are now stale: "efforts to decipher from ancient texts just what infec [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]