The Black Death |
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| Author:
| Ziegler, Philip |
| ISBN: | 978-0-06-171898-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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| Imprint: | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.99USD $16.99 |
Book Description:
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"As exciting and readable an account as you could wish." -- The Guardian
"Fascinating." - Bill Bryson
The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.
A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third...
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"As exciting and readable an account as you could wish." -- The Guardian
"Fascinating." - Bill Bryson
The Black Death vividly and comprehensively brings to light the full horror of this uniquely catastrophic event that hastened the disintegration of an age.
A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. The epidemic killed one-third of Europe's people over a period of three years, and the resulting social and economic upheaval was on a scale unparalleled in all of recorded history. Synthesizing the records of contemporary chroniclers and the work of later historians, Philip Ziegler offers a critically acclaimed overview of this crucial epoch in a single masterly volume.