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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1 (13)
I: Man the Hunter 14 (17)
II: Breakthrough to History 31 (38)
III: Confluence of the Civilized Disease 69 (63)
Pools of Eurasia: 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200
IV: The Impact of the Mongol Empire on 132(44)
Shifting Disease Balances, 1200-1500
V: Transoceanic Exchanges, 1500-1700 176(32)
VI: The Ecological Impact of Medical Science 208(51)
and Organization since 1700
Appendix 259(12)
Notes 271(60)
Index 331

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated editon.

Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.