In Justinian's Flea , William Rosen tells the story of history's first pandemic plague seven centuries before the Black Death that killed tens of millions, devastated the empires of Persia and Rome, left a path of victims from Ireland to Iraq, and opened the way for the armies of Islam. Weaving together evolutionary microbiology, economics, military strategy, ecology, and ancient and modern medicine, Rosen offers a sweeping narrative of one of the great hinge moments in history, one that will appeal to readers of John Kelly's The Great Mortality , John Barry's The Great Influenza , and Jared Diamond's Collapse .
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Book Description Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. In the middle of the 6th century, the Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that carries bubonic plague, collided with the world s mightiest empire. With the death of 25 million people, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. This. Seller Inventory # 597065883