This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Deat…
It was one of the most famous health issues in history. The Black Death plague organism (Yersinia pestis) spread from Asia throughout the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Europe in the fourteenth century, and in just a decade it killed between 40 and 60 percent of the people liv…
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Deat…
Genetic engineering of bacterial biocontrol agents; Genetic engineering of viruses and nematodes; Bioengineering of plants; Insect cell fusion; Medical aspects; Mass production of microbial and viral biocontrol agents; Regulatory and environmental aspects.
Examines what it was like to live with plague at all levels of society. Argues that the severe labor shortage that persisted for over a century after the Black Death ultimately broke the ties of feudal bondage
"In After the Black Death, Susan L. Einbinder uncovers Jewish responses to plague and violence in fourteenth-century Provence and Iberia. Einbinder's original research reveals a wide, heterogeneous series of Jewish literary responses to the plague, including Sephardic liturgical…
This book, the first work in English on the history of disease in China, traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteenth century, and eventually exploded on the world sc…
Rapid evolution is becoming increasingly relevant to evolutionary biologists and ecologists, especially in the context of global environmental change. This thesis is motivated by the goal of understanding the genomic mechanisms and evolutionary history that allow pest insects to…
