Can pandemics cause empires to fall?

07/27/21 • 13 min

Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

Plagues like the black death or the 1918 pandemic are not solely responsible for the rise and fall of civilizations and empires, but they do play an important role in history. Investigating how plagues have impacted civilizations in the past has offered Cambridge political economist John Rapley some clues into the impact of COVID-19 on our world today.

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