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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) David Foster Wallace And while they may ringA sweeping germs eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues Upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanitys uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is