Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire - Softcover

Rosen, William

 
9780143113812: Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire
Softcover
ISBN 10: 014311381X ISBN 13: 9780143113812
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008

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From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire

During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born.

At its height, five thousand people died every day in Constantinople. Cities were completely depopulated. It was the first pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indelible mark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian's Flea is a unique and sweeping account of the little known event that changed the course of a continent.

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William Rosen, author of Miracle Cure, The Third Horseman, Justinian’s Flea, and The Most Powerful Idea in the World, was an editor and a publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and the Free Press for nearly twenty-five years.

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Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
014311381X
ISBN 13 
9780143113812
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Anzahl der Seiten
384
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