| Plagues and Peoples | |
| Author: | William H. McNeill |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | US |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Published: | 1976 |
| Publisher: | Anchor Books, Garden City, New York |
| Isbn: | 978-0-385-12122-4 |
| Subjects: | epidemiological history |
| Pages: | 369 |
Plagues and Peoples is a book on epidemiological history by historian William H. McNeill published by Anchor Books in 1976. It was a critical and popular success, offering a radical new interpretation of the extraordinary impact of infectious disease on cultures as a means of enemy attack. The book ranges from examining the effects of smallpox in Mexico, the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe.[1]
With the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, a new preface was added to the book.