Plague, Weather, and Wool

Plague, Weather, and Wool

Author: Todd Richardson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1438951884

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The memories of love shared cannot be erased from memory. The delight of this affection was too great to escape or forget. The love shared is instilled within the soul. Like Solomon and the Shulamite Maiden, this love affair stretches the imagination. It overwhelms the five senses and creates a sixth sense, called; "Heaven."


Plague, Weather, and Wool

Plague, Weather, and Wool

Author: Todd Richardson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-05-13

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 145202779X

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Todd Richardson, MD, is a retired Family Medicine physician, having practiced for thirty six years in Louisville, Kentucky. He developed a keen interest in oriental rugs and began studying and collecting them over forty years ago. Dr. Richardson also has had an abiding interest in medical history since obtaining his BA in History at the University of Louisville. Since that time, he has belonged to textile organizations, given lectures on oriental rugs and previouly owned his own oriental rug business. It was while attending a national oriental rug meeting that he noticed the association between the fi rst appearance of oriental rugs in Europe and the beginning of the Bubonic plague, now known as the Black Death.


Plagues and Peoples

Plagues and Peoples

Author: William McNeill

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 1977-10-11

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0385121229

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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated editon. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.


Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe

Author: Harvey L. Dyck

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 751

ISBN-13: 1487504497

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789-1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochna. Cornies was well connected in the imperial government, and his papers offer a window not just into the world of the Molochna Mennonites, but also into the Tsarist state's relationship with the national minorities of the frontier: Mennonites, Doukhobors, Nogai Tatars, and Jews. This selection of his letters and reports, translated into English, is an invaluable resource for scholars of all aspects of life in Tsarist Ukraine and for those interested in Mennonite history.


The Great Transition

The Great Transition

Author: Bruce M. S. Campbell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1316571483

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In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy.