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SheilaT

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4. The Great Mortality by John Kelly.

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2013, 07:57 PM

Jan 2013

Excellent. Among other things, I learned that Rome was so depopulated after the fall of the Roman Empire that even a thousand years later, when the Plague struck, the city had maybe half the population it'd had a millennium before.

He also has a brand new book out about the Potato Famine, called The Graves are Walking, which I have on reserve at my library. Can hardly wait to read it.

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