http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2003/11/06#plagues <ul>Recommended: <li>Jared Diamond, <citE>Guns, Germs and Steel</cite> <li>Ewald, <cite>The Evolution of Infectious Disease</cite> <li>Stephen Johnson, <cite>The Ghost Map</cite> <li>William McNeill, <cite>Plagues and Peoples</cite> <li>Hans Zinsser, <cite>Rats, Lice and History</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>John Arrizabalaga, John Henderson and Roger French, <cite>The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe</cite> <li>Noble David Cook, <cite>Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492--1650</cite> <li>Alfred W. Crosby, <cite>America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918</cite> <li>Bernard Dixon, <cite>Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World</cite> <li>Laurie Garrett. <cite>The Coming Plague</cite> <li>Huppert, <cite>After the Black Death</cite> <li>George C. Kohn, <cite>Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence</cite> <li>Morse (ed.), <cite>Emerging Viruses</cite> <li>Heather Schell, "Outburst: A Chilling True Story about Emerging Virus Narratives", <cite>Configurations</cite> 1997, 5:93 <li>Verghese, <cite>My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS</cite> <li>Priscilla Wald, <cite>Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative</cite> <li>Watts, <cite>Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism</cite> <li>Willis, <cite>Yellow Fever Black Goddess</cite> </ul>