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History of the Human Community, A, Vol. II: 1500 to Present (5th Edition)
William H. McNeill

Prentice Hall, 1996

An intellectually and stylistically unified overview of world history, this text draws a global portrait of the human past?showing how each part of the world fits into the overall balance in each successive age.

History of the Human Community, A, Volume I: Prehistory to 1500 (5th Edition)

2 reviews
William H. McNeill

Prentice Hall, 1996

A Fine Overall Glance at World History
Although I disagree with the extreme negative rating and uninformed statements by the previous reviewer, in some regards the reviewer is correct in saying that this book is "eurocentric"; most books are. However that type of viewpoint is something that will take centuries for the societal perspectives to move away from. Most history, at least in the United States, is taught from this "current ...

Plagues and Peoples

44 reviews
William H. McNeill

Anchor, 1998

Amazing How a Few Invisible Germs Changed the World
The main thesis of William McNeill's "Plagues and People" is that disease states and the general health of various regions of the world throughout history have shaped social practices, religious thinking and political structures -- even leading to the rise and fall of entire civilizations. MacNeill's startling, well-defended claims are fascinating, eminently quotable and worthy of re-reading. ...

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

7 reviews
Robert McNeill, William H. McNeill

W. W. Norton, 2003

The history of soil erosion
By the 1990s, U.S miners moved about 4 billion tons of rock per year, and the world figures was about five times that. "All this mining corroded the lithosphere with a warren of underground shafts and chambers, and after the appearance of the requisite earth-moving machinery, pockmarked the earth's surface with thousands of huge open pits, mainly in the United States, Russia, Germany, and ...

A World History

4 reviews
William H. McNeill

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Review by Idil Kozanoglu
The last time I studied history was during high school and it was mostly a different part of it (let's say ancient civilization in one semester, european in another etc..) However I later on realized that there were some gaps and missing links between all these periods where I was mostly confused about the time intervals and the important events that started as a chain reaction and effected ...

History of the Human Community, A, Combined (5th Edition)
William H. McNeill

Prentice Hall, 1996

An intellectually and stylistically unified overview of world history, this text draws a global portrait of the human past–showing how each part of the world fits into the overall balance in each successive age.

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library)

11 reviews
David Christian

University of California Press, 2005

The modern model
Intellectually stimulating, rapid-fire journey, the "powers of 10" movie specialized for history buffs. Some of the material I found superficial/generalized to be of substance, but the author acknowledges that can be the nature of Big History. An ambitious book which talks directly to ideas that most historians only philosophically discuss. A charge of inductive reasoning would not be far ...

Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History

2 reviews
William H. McNeill

Harvard University Press, 1997

Dancing as the Engine of Human History
If you are one of those people who reads in terms of things subversive or hegemonic, you will not like this book, because it so completely accepts the sort of mechanized vision of the universe so common to our age. However, if one should happen to be free of that particular affliction, then this is a fairly interesting book, for not only is it readable, rare for an academic book, but it also ...

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community

11 reviews
William H. McNeill

Univ of Chicago Pr (T), 1968

The West Rises
McNeill belongs to that category of historians who not only bring an enormous treasure chest of knowledge, but who present it in a writing style so direct and compelling that the reader cannot help but admire their work. "The Rise of the West" is a monumental book. McNeill's knowledge of histroy, of facts, his erudition--all leave the reader in a kind of suspense and disbelief. Can one man know ...

History Handbook of Western Civilization
William H. McNeill

The University of Chicago Press, 1966

history from stone age to present

Plagues and Peoples
William H. McNeill

Doubleday/Anchor, 1976

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