Comparative Civilizations Review(iscsc)
Pestilence and Other Calamities in Civilizational Theory: Sorokin, McNeill, Diamond, and Beyond Vlad Alalykin-IzvekovFollow Keywords calamity, “civilized diseases, ” disease vector, endemic, epidemic, great sociocultural systems, great socioeconomic systems, infectious diseases, outbreak, pandemic, plague, pestilence, revolution, social change, zoonotic diseases Abstract This paper analyses the phenomenon of pestilence through paradigmatic…