William H. McNeill (1917–2016)
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William Hardy McNeill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on October 31, 1917. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Chicago. He was drafted in 1941 and served with the Army in Hawaii and the Caribbean and as assistant military attaché to the visa mer Greek and Yugoslavian governments-in-exile in Cairo, Egypt. After the war, he received a doctorate from Cornell University. He was a history professor at the University of Chicago from 1947 until he retired in 1987. He wrote more than 20 books during his lifetime including Plagues and Peoples; The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000; Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life, Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950; and Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community won the 1963 National Book Award for history and the Gordon J. Laing Prize of the University of Chicago. He was the co-author of The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History with his son John Robert McNeill. He also wrote a memoir entitled The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir. He was one of the editors of the Readings in World History Series published by Oxford University Press. He died on July 8, 2016 at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av William H. McNeill
The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View (Bland-Lee lecture series delivered at Clark University, 1979) (1980) 31 exemplar
Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 (Centennial Publications of The University… (1991) 28 exemplar
Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History (Donald G. Creighton Lectures, 1985) (1986) 9 exemplar
World history in maps;: A teachers manual for use with Denoyer-Geppert world history series, (1963) 6 exemplar
世界史 I ── 人類の結びつきと相互作用の歴史 1 exemplar
世界史 II──人類の結びつきと相互作用の歴史 1 exemplar
Greece: American aid in action, 1947-1956 1 exemplar
戦争の世界史(下) (中公文庫) 1 exemplar
The Hamlyn history of the world in colour. Vol.20, From peace to war into the space age (1970) 1 exemplar
Colebrook: A Historical Sketch 1 exemplar
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What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 1,735 exemplar
Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education (The Fundamentalism Project) (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 33 exemplar
The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets (Columbia Business School Publishing) (2011) — Förord, vissa utgåvor — 21 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "Infectious Alternatives" — 14 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1995 (1994) — Author "Keeping Together in Time" — 9 exemplar
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society - Fifth Series, Volume 32 (1982) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 6 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- McNeill, William Hardy
- Födelsedag
- 1917-10-31
- Avled
- 2016-07-08
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Dödsort
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Utbildning
- Cornell University (PhD|1947)
University of Chicago (MA|1939)
University of Chicago (BA|1938) - Yrken
- historian
university professor emeritus - Relationer
- McNeill, John T. (father)
McNeill, J.R. (son) - Organisationer
- University of Chicago
- Priser och utmärkelser
- National Humanities Medal (2010)
Erasmus Prize (1996) - Kort biografi
- William H. McNeill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of a Presbyterian minister and historian of Christianity. He graduated from the University of Chicago, where he was editor of the student newspaper, in 1938, and earned a master’s degree with a thesis on Thucydides and Herodotus.
In 1941, during World War II, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. After the war, he earned a doctorate in history at Cornell University and joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he remained until his retirement in 1987.
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Menszijn een parasitaire wereldgeschiedenis av William H. MacNeill
Dit boekje bevat twee korte lezingen die William H. McNeill bracht in 1979, op een moment dat hij zijn belangrijkste boeken had gepubliceerd: The Rise of the West (1963, de eerste echte aanzet tot een Global History), en Plagues and Peoples (1976, de eerste systematische studie van de invloed van ziekten in de wereldgeschiedenis). In 1982 zou ook The Pursuit of Power volgen, waarin hij de rol van technologie en militaire slagkracht zou uitdiepen. McNeill is altijd al de man van de grote lijn geweest, en in deze lezingen komt dat meer dan ooit tot uiting. Hij focust erin op twee grote processen die zoals twee maalstenen op elkaar liggen, elkaar ook in evenwicht houden: het microparasitaire (de rol van virussen en bacteriën) en het macroparasitaire (de rol van overheersing en uitbuiting op menselijk niveau). Dit is zeker niet het meest geslaagde werk van McNeill: zijn uitgangspunt doet wat geforceerd aan, en het beste bewijs daarvoor is dat hij zijn these niet helemaal kan volhouden. Meer daarover in mijn History-account op Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5802421001… (mer)
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How wonderful it read what I consider to be the most impressive historian of the second half of the twentieth century, even though these are only short essays and they are already 40 years old. Because William McNeill (1917-2016) can rightly be called the real father of world history. Agreed, some passages may be a bit dated, but many of McNeill's findings remain valid. I especially recommend essay 3, in which he clarifies his approach: “my approach, influenced by the anthropologists, assumed that borrowing was the normal human reaction to an encounter with strangers possessing superior skills (…) Such encounters thus appeared to me to be the principal motor of social change within civilized and simpler societies alike. A world history should, accordingly, focus special attention on modes of transport and the evidences of contact between different and divergent forms of society that such transport allowed.” Interaction, confrontation and entanglement have become basic elements in the global approach to history, mainly thanks to McNeill. More on that in my History account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4632208381… (mer)
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- Verk
- 62
- Även av
- 10
- Medlemmar
- 4,716
- Popularitet
- #5,343
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 51
- ISBN
- 167
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 3
- Proberstenar
- 58
