The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan | 2 December 2022 | 1h 31m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Kyle Harper about his book Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. Discusses the role of the bubonic plague in the fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, flagellants and anti-Semitism, the plague in 17C London, the Spanish flu, the AIDS crisis, Thucydides, and the uprising over China’s covid policy.
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Kyle Harper – Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast | 1 October 2021 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Kyle Harper about his book Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. Presents a “big history,” tracing the role of disease in the transition to farming, the spread of cities, the advance of transportation, and the stupendous increase in human population. Explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress.
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Contagion, and Slavery in the Roman Empire
HistoryTwinsPodcast | 26 September 2019 | 0h 55m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Kyle Harper about his books The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire and Slavery in the Late Roman World. Discusses the disease events and climatic transitions which lead to the Roman collapse. Also covers what’s wrong with the slavery-to-serfdom theory and why even relatively poor Romans owned slaves.
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