Vistopia
Cover of A Global History from China, Season 5: Disease, Climate, and Environment
A Global History from China, Season 5: Disease, Climate, and Environment
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Completed · 17 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Ge Zhaoguang: Why Should Global History Attend to Disease and Nature? 1. Did a Great Plague Defeat Athens? | Disease, War, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations 2. Did Mongol Armies Bring the Black Death to Europe? | The Plague Pandemic 3. A Virus Sweeps Eurasia and the Americas | Smallpox and Inoculation 4. Was “Jesuit's Bark” an Accomplice of Colonialism? | Mosquitoes and Empire 5. “Go West, Where You Can Breathe Again!” | Tuberculosis, Germ Theory, and Public Health Bonus | A Global History of “Hygiene” Extra Bonus | Why Are There Anti-Vaccine Movements? | A Global History of Vaccines Bonus | Duan Zhiqiang: A Global History Beginning with Vistopia Bonus | Leung Man-tao: Here I Am to Make Up the Numbers Again—from an Indonesian Volcano to Frankenstein 6. How Did Pigs Reach Samoa? | Environment and History in Global Perspective 7. How Do Historians Explain the Rise and Fall of Civilizations and Empires? | Nomads and States 8. “Behold the Flowing Springs” | Environment, Waterworks, Agriculture, and History Reading List | Take a Day Off and Read: New Books in Global History 9. Did the “General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century” Bring Dynastic Change to China? | The Little Ice Age Leung Man-tao: Why Must We Guard against Environmental Determinism? | The Mystery of Angkor's Fall Bonus | Altay Has More Than Li Juan—it Also Has Global History