Rats, Lice and History
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rats-lice-and-history-182-5593346
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Rats, Lice and History
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Rats, Lice and History is a 1935 book written by biologist Hans Zinsser on the subject of typhus, a disease on which he performed significant research. Zinsser frames the book as a biography of the infectious disease, tracing its path through history. An important theme of the book is the effect infectious diseases such as typhus had on the course of history, a topic which would later be treated in other popular works such as Plagues and Peoples and Guns, Germs and Steel. Written for a lay audie
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1935 book by Hans Zinsser
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rats,_Lice_and_History
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2016-04-03T15:17:41Z
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2024-09-06T05:50:49Z
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