Authors:John Robert McNeill, William H. McNeill,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: world, history, view, eye, web, bird, human
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-02
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 039305179X
ISBN-13: 9780393051797

An original vision of world history that reveals the larger patterns of human cooperation and conflict from the earliest times. Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the Internet just once? In a spirited contribution to the quickening discussion of world-historical questions such as these, J. R. and William H. McNeill explore the webs that have drawn huma

Authors:Robert McNeill, William H. McNeill,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: world, history, view, eye, web, bird, human
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-12-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393925684
ISBN-13: 9780393925685

An original vision of world history that reveals the larger patterns of human cooperation and conflict from the earliest times. Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the Internet just once? In a spirited contribution to the quickening discussion of world-historical questions such as these, J. R. and William H. McNeill explore the webs that have drawn huma

Author: William McNeill
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: university, chicago, press, publications, centennial, hutchins, memoir
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1991-10-08
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0226561704
ISBN-13: 9780226561707

The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins’ University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times. Hutchins’ scathing opp

Author: William H. McNeill
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: peoples, plagues
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1998-02
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0385121229
ISBN-13: 9780385121224

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill expl

Author: William H. McNeill
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: memoir, historian, truth, pursuit
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0813123453
ISBN-13: 9780813123455

William H. McNeill’s seminal book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) received the National Book Award in 1964 and was later named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. From his post at the University of Chicago, McNeill became one of the first contemporary North American historians to write world history, seeking a broader interpretation of human affairs than prevailed in his youth. A candid, intellectual memoir from one of the most famous and influential historians of our era, The Pursuit of Truth charts the de

Author: William McNeill
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: handbook, civilization, western, history
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1986-01-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226561607
ISBN-13: 9780226561608

Renowned historian William H. McNeil provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its socio-political as well as cultural aspects. This sixth edition includes new material for the twentieth-century period and completely revised bibliographies. An invaluable tool for the study of Western civilization, the Handbook is an essential complement to readings in primary and secondary sources such as those in the nine-volume University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization.

Author: William H. McNeill
Publisher: University of Puerto Rico Press
Keywords: spanish, historia, manual, occidente, civilizacion
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2001-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0847703959
ISBN-13: 9780847703951

El reconocido historiador William H. McNeill provee una fundación sólida para el estudio de la historia occidental, narrando magistralmente el desarrollo de esta civilización de forma cronológica y presentando sus aspectos sociopolíticos y culturales. Esta nueva edición incluye información sobre el siglo XX y una bibliografía actualizada. El manual pone a disposición del estudiante información indispensable que le permitirá cobrar conciencia de la historia política, social, intelectual y religiosa del Occidente.