The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, by David Herlihy, edited by Samuel Cohn.
The current wave of viral panic is of course the most recent chapter in a very long history of epidemics: Ebola in the 1990s, mad cow disease in the 1980s, polio in the 1930s and 1940s, the black death in the 14th century, and so on.
Since when were the Little Ice Age and the Black Death the Good Old Days?
And even though everyone was far more at the effect of natural forces (a couple of dry years, or a run of the black death, and it was all over), there was still a fairly direct correlation between working hard and doing well.
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Six centuries after the Black Death ravaged Europe, the gruesomeness of the disease and its hopeless, unavoidable death sentence still assault the human psyche.
The fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, the collapse of trade and migration in the interwar years of the 20th century: all these either slowed the process of globalisation or stopped it in its tracks, albeit only temporarily.
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The Black Death is thought to have originated in China and spread to Europe through trade.
And the black men who have done their job are scared to death about what the tendency for black men to leave relationships means for their daughters.
The Black Death killed one-third of Europe's population, wages rose and the return on capital and land fell.
And by 1350, the grim, cold climate brought about the dreaded Black Death.
There is a continuum between brain death and normal awareness that patients such as Sharon fall into, Black said.
In 1348 it played a pivotal role in the spread of the Black Death, it was a major departure point for the settlement of the Americas and a critical location for Britain's defense during World War II.
In most Asian cultures, it is actually bad luck to wear black to a wedding because it is considered as some sort of sartorial disguise for misfortune and even even death.
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The start of the Black Death in 1348 will be the setting against which to explore fear, faith, economic ravagement and the imposition of political power.
Commerce was already associated with infection during the Black Death, though it would be hundreds of years before rats were singled out as its carrier, and the first quarantines followed soon after.
The Vikings who settled Iceland smoked, dried, salted or pickled just about anything to get them through the long Arctic winter and their descendents still occasionally indulge in the delicacies of their ancestors, washing it all down with Black Death, a caraway-flavored liquor that apparently goes well with rancid shark.
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