Justinian S Flea

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101202425

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Justinian's Flea by William Rosen Pdf

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.

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0670038555

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Justinian's Flea by William Rosen Pdf

Weaving together evolutionary microbiology, economics, military strategy, ecology, and ancient and modern medicine, author Rosen tells of history's first pandemic--a plague seven centuries before the Black Death that killed tens of millions, devastated th

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 9781844137442

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Justinian's Flea by William Rosen Pdf

In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. In its wake, the plague - history's first pandemic - marked the transition from the age of Mediterranean empires to the age of European nation-states - antiquity to the medieval world. This book looks at the transition.

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226726342

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The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen Pdf

"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698163492

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The Third Horseman by William Rosen Pdf

The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history—years before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the forthcoming Miracle Cure In May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that followed, Europeans would be visited by a series of curses unseen since the third book of Exodus: floods, ice, failures of crops and cattle, and epidemics not just of disease, but of pike, sword, and spear. All told, six million lives—one-eighth of Europe’s total population—would be lost. With a category-defying knowledge of science and history, William Rosen tells the stunning story of the oft-overlooked Great Famine with wit and drama and demonstrates what it all means for today’s discussions of climate change.

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141928593

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A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich Pdf

With wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547021353

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The Autobiography Of A Flea by Anonymous Pdf

The Autobiography of a Flea is an unsigned erotic novel. A flea recounts the story of a stunning youthful girl called Bella, whose flourishing sexuality is explored by a number of men and even her best friend Julia.

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780525428107

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Miracle Cure by William Rosen Pdf

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma. As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics. By 1955, the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and microbes had been transformed, trivializing once-deadly infections. William Rosen captures this revolution with all its false starts, lucky surprises, and eccentric characters. He explains why, given the complex nature of bacteria—and their ability to rapidly evolve into new forms—the only way to locate and test potential antibiotic strains is by large-scale, systematic, trial-and-error experimentation. Organizing that research needs large, well-funded organizations and businesses, and so our entire scientific-industrial complex, built around the pharmaceutical company, was born. Timely, engrossing, and eye-opening, Miracle Cure is a must-read science narrative—a drama of enormous range, combining science, technology, politics, and economics to illuminate the reasons behind one of the most dramatic changes in humanity’s relationship with nature since the invention of agriculture ten thousand years ago.

Author : Kyle Harper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400888917

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The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper Pdf

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague. A poignant reflection on humanity’s intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history’s greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature’s violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit—in ways that are surprising and profound.

Author : Harold Lamb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258315181

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Constantinople by Harold Lamb Pdf

Author : Jonathan Phillips
Publisher : Random House
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448114528

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The Fourth Crusade by Jonathan Phillips Pdf

In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But after a dramatic series of events, the crusaders turned their weapons against the Christian city of Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire and the greatest metropolis in the known world. The crusaders spared no one in their savagery: they murdered and raped old and young - they desecrated churches, plundered treasuries and much of the city was put to the torch. Some contemporaries were delighted: God had approved this punishment of the effeminate, treacherous Greeks; others expressed shock and disgust at this perversion of the crusading ideal. History has judged this as the crusade that went wrong. In this remarkable new assessment of the Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips follows the fortunes of the leading players and explores the conflicting motives that drove the expedition to commit the most infamous massacre of the crusading movement.

Author : Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020028718

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The Life of Belisarius by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope Pdf

Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199362752

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Rome Resurgent by Peter Heather Pdf

Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his conquests in Italy and North Africa, and for the creation of spectacular monuments such as the Hagia Sophia, his reign was also marked by global religious conflict within the Christian world and an outbreak of plague that some have compared to the Black Death. For many historians, Justinian is far more than an anomaly of Byzantine ambition between the eras of Attila and Muhammad; he is the causal link that binds together the two moments of Roman imperial collapse. Determined to reverse the losses Rome suffered in the fifth century, Justinian unleashed an aggressive campaign in the face of tremendous adversity, not least the plague. This book offers a fundamentally new interpretation of his conquest policy and its overall strategic effect, which has often been seen as imperial overreach, making the regime vulnerable to the Islamic takeover of its richest territories in the seventh century and thus transforming the great Roman Empire of Late Antiquity into its pale shadow of the Middle Ages. In Rome Resurgent, historian Peter Heather draws heavily upon contemporary sources, including the writings of Procopius, the principal historian of the time, while also recasting that author's narrative by bringing together new perspectives based on a wide array of additional source material. A huge body of archaeological evidence has become available for the sixth century, providing entirely new means of understanding the overall effects of Justinian's war policies. Building on his own distinguished work on the Vandals, Goths, and Persians, Heather also gives much fuller coverage to Rome's enemies than Procopius ever did. A briskly paced narrative by a master historian, Rome Resurgent promises to introduce readers to this captivating and unjustly overlooked chapter in ancient warfare.

Author : John Barylick
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611682656

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Killer Show by John Barylick Pdf

The definitive book on The Station nightclub fire on the 10th anniversary of the disaster

Author : Robert S. Gottfried
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439118467

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Black Death by Robert S. Gottfried Pdf

A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by rat fleas brought on an ecological reign of terror -- killing one European in three, wiping out entire villages and towns, and rocking the foundation of medieval society and civilization.