Books by Carlo Cippolla
“Cippolla uses court records and other kinds of primary evidence to explore what happened when the plague arrived as science started to challenge the way religion traditionally shaped people’s belief. He does it in about 80 pages of marvellous micro-history.” Read more...
Christian W. McMillen, Historian
Interviews where books by Carlo Cippolla were recommended
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Faith, Reason, and the Plague in Seventeenth Century Tuscany
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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
by James Daschuk -
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The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria
by Randall Packard -
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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
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Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878–1930
by Mariola Espinosa
The best books on Pandemics, recommended by Christian W. McMillen
The best books on Pandemics, recommended by Christian W. McMillen
With coronavirus causing widespread panic, we would do well to educate ourselves about the history of pandemics and disease. University of Virginia historian and associate dean Christian W. McMillen, author of Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction, recommends the best introductions to the subject.
