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How do pandemics shape history? In conversation with Kyle Harper
How do pandemics shape history? In conversation with Kyle Harper
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Covid-19 was not the first pandemic in history, and it won’t be the last. We have lived with disease throughout our history, and our history has accordingly been shaped, sometimes transformed, by disease. But how?
In the final episode of this series of Reading Our Times, Nick Spencer talks to the historian Kyle Harper about his new book Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History.
In the final episode of this series of Reading Our Times, Nick Spencer talks to the historian Kyle Harper about his new book Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History.
Released:
Dec 21, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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