What disease was plague? : on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past /

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Author / Creator:Benedictow, Ole Jørgen.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:xvi, 746 p. : col. map ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Brill's series in the history of the environment, 1876-6595 ; v. 2
Brill's series in the history of the environment ; v. 2.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8400724
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ISBN:9789004180024 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004180028 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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