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In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the World it Made
But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...
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The Black Death.
Surgeon General George M. Sternberg in the January Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for ...
She Published a Blockbuster Book. Was It a Blessing or a Curse?
In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art ...
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The Black Book of Communism Is a Shoddy Work of History
Whenever the history of twentieth-century communism is discussed, it will not be long before you find a particular figure ...
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Black Death 'spread by humans not rats'
But a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara now says the first, the Black Death, can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice". The study, in the Proceedings of the National ...