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A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history—from the
rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by
germs“Superbly written. Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific and historical research,
and his confident authorial voice is sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger
Bregman.”—The Times (U.K.)According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have
thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this
revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism
overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe
that wins wars and topples empires.Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics
and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through sixty thousand
years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern
world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of
Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European
colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global
superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics
that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned
what was a tiny sect into one of the world’s major religions.By placing disease at the center of his
wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental
assumptions about our collective past—and urges us to view this moment as another diseasedriven
inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight,
Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story.