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SUMMARY:Hooked on History - Nighttime
DESCRIPTION:History Lovers! This book club is for you! Each season we 
 select a book for our first meeting to read together that covers a theme or 
 time period of history. For our second meeting\, we read from a list of 
 books around the topic of the first book.\n\nFor January\, we will be 
 reading Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan 
 Kennedy.  Stop by the Reference Desk to pick up a copy of the book.\n\nFor 
 February we will be reading books about pandemics and the other periods of 
 history discussed in the book Pathogenesis.  A list of suggested book 
 titles will be provided at the January meetings.\n\nBeginning in 2026!  We 
 are now offering two discussion meetings each month\, the 4th Monday of the 
 month at 6:30 pm and the 4th Wednesday of the month at 10:30 am.  Each 
 group will be limited to 12 people and you MUST register to 
 attend.\n\nAbout Pathogenesis:\n\nAccording 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.\n\nDrawing 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.\n\nBy 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 disease-driven inflection point that will 
 change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight\, 
 Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story.
LOCATION:Second Floor\, Haverford Township Free Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Haverford Township Free Library":MAILTO:haverford@delcolibraries.org
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion, History
CONTACT;CN="Haverford Township Free Library":MAILTO:haverford@delcolibraries.org
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