The Review
Devastating Plagues, Then and Now
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics, by Steven W. Mosher, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2022, 365 pages, paperback. To order, click here.
Disease can affect history. For instance, typhoid, malaria, and smallpox played key roles, respectively, in the Peloponnesian War, the fall of the Roman Empire, and the Franco-Prussian War. This book on pandemics doesn’t cover all of those yesterdays — though it does delve very deeply, as far back as 3000 B.C.
Bubonic plague is the general subject in the separate chapters on the Plague of Justinian (541-750), the Black Death (1347-1351), and the Yunnan Plague (1772-1960) — which all traveled to the West and can be traced back to China.
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