Bugged: How Insects Changed History

The insect facts of life

The horrible history of human hygiene

The land of silk and honey

Bad-news bugs

The earliest epidemics

Close encounters of the ancient kind

Medieval microbes

More thinking but still stinking: the Renaissance

Travel troubles

It's all fun and games until someone loses an isle

How revolutionary!

Dastardly diseases and demented dictators

The Nineteenth Century: crawling toward a cure

The nitty gritty about the itty bitty: germs discovered at last

Twentieth-century pox

The craze about sprays

Now what?