Author: Virginia DeMarcePublisher: Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press
ISBN: 9781948818353
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Legions of Pestilence
Author: Virginia DeMarcePublisher: Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press
ISBN: 9781948818353
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Legions of Pestilence
Author: Virginia DeMarcePublisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 1625799764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
In the world the West Virginians of Grantville came from, the borderlands between France and Germany had been a source of turmoil for centuries. In the new universe created by the Ring of Fire, the situation isn't any better. The chaotic condition of the German lands has been ended—for a time, at least. And the near-century long war between Spain and the Netherlands has finally been resolved. But now France is unstable. The defeat of Richelieu's forces in the Ostend War has weakened the Red Cardinal's grip on political power and emboldened his enemies, Foremost among them is King Louis XIII's ambitious younger brother, Monsieur Gaston. An inveterate schemer and would-be usurper, Gaston's response to the new conditions in France is to launch a military adventure. He invades the Duchy of Lorraine. Soon, others are drawn into the conflict. The Low Countries ruled by King Ferdinand and Duke Bernhard's newly formed Burgundy, a kingdom-in-all-but-name, send their own troops into Lorraine. Chaos expands and spreads up and down the Rhine. It isn't long before the mightiest and most deadly army enters the fray—the legions of pestilence. Bubonic plague and typhus lead the way, but others soon follow: dysentery, deadly and disfiguring smallpox, along with new diseases introduced by the time-displaced town of Grantville. The war is on. All the wars—and on all fronts. Can the medical knowledge of the up-time Americans be adapted and spread fast enough to forestall disaster? Or will their advanced military technology simply win one war in order to lose the other and much more terrible one? At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Armies of Pestilence
Author: R. S. BrayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0718895606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The global outbreak of Covid-19 appears to be unprecedented in a world which has not suffered a serious pandemic for a century, while society had almost forgotten the enormous impact of highly infectious diseases throughout history. Pestilence, however, has played a major role in ending the Golden Age of Athens, wrecking Justinian's plans to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, and killing untold millions in Latin America after the Spanish invasion. Despite its importance, historians have tended to minimise the role of infectious disease, partly because of a lack of scientific knowledge. This has resulted in a distorted view both of the past and of the danger of disease to modern society. In Armies of Pestilence, R.S. Bray, a distinguished biologist and an able historian, corrects this view with an exploration of the influence of disease on history. The book surveys the principal epidemics around the world and across the centuries, including scholarly discussion around those which cannot be certainly identified. In each case, Bray examines the origins of the outbreaks, as well as the symptoms, the mortality rate and the social and economic turmoil left in their wake. Bray pays special attention to the infamous organism that caused the Black Death, Yersina pestis, as well as other grimly familiar bogey-men of pestilential history including malaria, smallpox, typhus, cholera and influenza, and AIDS. Government responses to outbreaks are assessed, and the inability of governments to deal effectively with disease is a recurring theme. The relationship between disease and war, with the former often responsible for more deaths than the latter, is also considered in detail, as was the case during the last great influenza pandemic of 1918-19, at the end of the First World War
Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Author: Ari Ben-MenahemPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540688315
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 6070
Book Description
This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering more than 2,000 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark on the history of science and technology. This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy.
Armies of Pestilence
Author: R. S. BrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780760719152
Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Surveys the principal epidemics in all countries from biblical times almost to the present, in each case discussing the origins of the outbreak, the symptons, the mortality rate, and the social and economic effects.
A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar
Author: Walter Wybergh HowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
A Theoretical Inquiry Into the Physical Cause of Epidemic Diseases ...
Author: Alexander Hamilton Howe (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A Theoretical inquiry into the physical cause of epidemic diseases
Author: Alexander Hamilton HowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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Author: Edmund Winstanley