John Mcneill
Biographic Data
| ID | 255849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mcneill |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcneill |
| SIGNATURE | MCNEILL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6901-0624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 88 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Pacific World in the Round
John Dargavel, Anthropocene Days
Martin V. Melosi, Water in North American Environmental History
History of the Adriatic
Ivetic attempts to assemble a coherent story out of bits and pieces of history from the diverse lands adjacent to the Adriatic Sea. The author offers no particular thesis, except perhaps that the Adriatic should be seen as a cultural unit and that there is such a thing, if as yet unrecognized, as an “Adriatic civilization,” which, it seems, is the outcome of several millennia of interactions among the populations lining its shores. Ivetic mobiliz…
Pelagianismus – eine konstruierte Häresie
Climate change
Some nation-states, i.e., Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, repeatedly score the highest in environmental indicators such as the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). Their cities win environmental awards; they have well-developed recycling systems; they perform well with biodegradable waste; and their citizens show awareness of environmental problems, protesting publicly and even sueing their governing…
Rice in the Time of Sugar
Louis Pérez, author of more than a dozen books on modern Cuba and Cuban-American relations, here turns his hand to the history of Cuban rice. Historians interested in Cuban agriculture have written abundantly and wonderfully on sugar and tobacco. They have shown much less interest in Cuban food and food production. Pérez emphasizes early on the importance of rice to Cuban meals and diets, and its centrality to Cuban food culture. He stresses the …
Environmental History in the Pacific World
Contents: General editor's preface Introduction Commercialization without capitalism: processes of environmental change in South China, 1550-1850, Robert Marks Three thousand years of unsustainable growth: China's environment from archaic times to the present, Mark Elvin Of rats and men: a synoptic environmental history of the island Pacific, J. R. McNeill Coming to terms with nature: state and environment in maritime southeast Asia, Greg Bankoff…
Bishop Roger, St John Hope, and Old Sarum Cathedral
Between 1909 and 1915, the former Iron Age hill fort at Old Sarum was excavated under the aegis of the Society of Antiquaries of London. These excavations were abandoned in 1915, and although the findings of individual seasons were published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, the principal interpreter of the archaeology, William St John Hope (1854–1919), died before the promised final report could be written. The absence of a final…
Buying time for a tough transition
In Memoriam
Reflections
Epilogue
Matthew Gandy. The Fabric of Space
Matthew Gandy is a geographer at University College London whose work focuses on cities, how they work, and how their workings are represented in art and literature. His first book, entitled Concrete and Clay (2002), about New York, won a prize. Since its appearance, he has published dozens of articles and several edited books, and his output has earned him election to the British Academy. This latest book concerns six big cities at various point…
A short environmental history of Italy
This handy book is an environmental history of modern Italy. Its four chapters discuss developments since about 1800. The first chapter contextualizes what is to come with a brief discussion of glo
Shrinking the Earth
In this book, Worster, the dean of active environmental historians, offers what might be called the Pale Blue Dot theory of history, with a heavy emphasis on the significance of North America. He is concerned with both the limits that the earth imposes on human enterprise and the history of Anglo-American recognition, and rejection, of them. Worster argues that after 1500, when Europeans became aware of the bounty in the Americas, they “enjoyed a…
King's Lynn and the Fens
Home ward
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
The Working Group on the Anthropocene
Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere
We assess the scale and extent of the physical technosphere, defined here as the summed material output of the contemporary human enterprise. It includes active urban, agricultural and marine components, used to sustain energy and material flow for current human life, and a growing residue layer, currently only in small part recycled back into the active component. Preliminary estimates suggest a technosphere mass of approximately 30 trillion ton…
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
Evidence of an Anthropocene epoch Humans are undoubtedly altering many geological processes on Earth—and have been for some time. But what is the stratigraphic evidence for officially distinguishing this new human-dominated time period, termed the “Anthropocene,” from the preceding Holocene epoch? Waters et al. review climatic, biological, and geochemical signatures of human activity in sediments and ice cores. Combined with deposits of new mater…
Le Décor Peint de la Maison Médiévale
Aedes Rides Again
The author reflects on the role that the mosquito Aedes aegypti has had in spreading flaviviruses such as the Zika virus in the Americas and how dengue and yellow fever shaped history in the Americas. It comments on Scotland's attempt to establish a trading colony at Darien, Panama which resulted in 70 percent of 2,500 Scottish colonists dying from 1697-1698. It mentions a French colony in French Guiana in 1763 had upward of 90 percent of 11,000 …
Christopher Sneddon. Concrete Revolution
Christopher Sneddon is a geographer whose scholarship to date mainly concerns the Mekong River. In Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation he capitalizes on his prior study of the Mekong, but expands his scope dramatically. He provides an account and an analysis of the work of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation overseas during the first half of the Cold War. By the late 1940s, the bureau had assembled c…
Designing Norman Sicily
The Anthropocene
When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal
The Working Group on the Anthropocene
The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere
We assess the scale and extent of the physical technosphere, defined here as the summed material output of the contemporary human enterprise. It includes active urban, agricultural and marine components, used to sustain energy and material flow for current human life, and a growing residue layer, currently only in small part recycled back into the active component. Preliminary estimates suggest a technosphere mass of approximately 30 trillion ton…
Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History
This article aims to consider the robust field of environmental history as a whole, as it stands and as it has developed over the past twenty-five years around the world. It necessarily adopts a selective approach but still offers more breadth than depth. It treats the links between environmental history and other fields within history, and with other related disciplines such as geography. It considers the precursors of environmental history, its…
The Human Web
World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose…
Woods and Warfare in World History
Something New under the Sun
In the course of the 20th century the human race, without intending anything of the sort, undertook a giant, uncontrolled experiment on the earth. In time, according to John McNeill in his new book, the environmental dimension of 20th century history will overshadow the importance of its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, and the spread of mass literacy. Contrary to the wisdom of Ecclesiastes that there is nothing new under the sun, McNe…
The Anthropocene Review
Human activities now play a major, integral and ever-increasing role in the functioning of the Earth System. This fact lies at the heart of the notion of the Anthropocene. Documenting, understanding and responding to the present and future challenges posed by the recent, dramatic changes in the relationship between humans and their environment thus becomes an imperative for human society. This editorial presents the rationale for engaging with th…
Mobilizing Nature
Chris Pearson is among the handful of historians who write about the links between natural environments and warfare. In this book he sketches a story of the landscapes of France as they affected warfare and were affected by war and preparation for war. Most of the book concerns military camps and bases, battle zones, and military resource use. He uses the term ‘militarised landscapes’ to tie all these together, which I found useful but I can imag…
Ecology, Epidemics and Empires
In the Atlantic American tropics, from Florida to Brazil, yellow fever attacked different populations differently. It killed outsiders more easily than locals, whites more easily than blacks, adults more easily than children. This meant that, after yellow fever was firmly ensconced via an ecological reconfiguration connected to sugar (c. 1640-90) it underpinned a military and political status quo, keeping Spanish America Spanish. After 1780, and …
Introductory Remarks
The term and concept of the Anthropocene has lately seeped into academic discourses and public discussions. This article considers some of its intellectual roots in European history, extending back to the origins of stratigraphy in the seventeenth century, and the debates surrounding it. Those debates concern the antiquity of the Anthropocene and its essential character. Depending on which variables one wishes to elevate above others, one can fin…
An Empire Divided
Journal Article An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. By Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xviii, 357 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8122-3558-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-8122-1732-2.) J. R. McNeill J. R. McNeill Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, …
Climate change
Some nation-states, i.e., Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, repeatedly score the highest in environmental indicators such as the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). Their cities win environmental awards; they have well-developed recycling systems; they perform well with biodegradable waste; and their citizens show awareness of environmental problems, protesting publicly and even sueing their governing…
Population and the Natural Environment
Atlantic American Societies
Within the chronological framework of Implantation, Maturation and Transition, this book provides the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of slavery. Suggesting a shift in the traditional units of analysis away from nationally defined boundaries, this volume considers all of the Americas - and Africa - to encourage students to see the larger interimperial issues which governed behaviour in …
Reflections
Europe's Place in the Global History of Biological Exchange
This paper provides a framework for the European history of biological exchange and biological invasion. It distinguishes four main eras of heightened biological exchange. The first came with the introduction to Europe of the neolithic complex of domesticated plants and animals. The second was associated with the increased trade and travel of the pax romana. The third came with increased connections to Asia and the Indian Ocean world in the era o…
A short environmental history of Italy
This handy book is an environmental history of modern Italy. Its four chapters discuss developments since about 1800. The first chapter contextualizes what is to come with a brief discussion of glo
Jürgen Osterhammel. The Transformation of the World
Global history seems to be in vogue. Constant reminders that we live in a globalized age have nudged parts of the historical profession out of comfortable ruts and onto difficult, broader terrain. In Germany, Jürgen Osterhammel is leading the way. Although a historian of modern China for most of his career, Osterhammel has published short books on colonialism and globalization in the past decade. In 2009, he published this work in German, and it …
Atlantic Empires of France and Spain
Atlantic Empires of France and Spain
The English Atlantic, 1675-1740
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and concludes that great changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created the often barren and depopulated countrysides of today. These changes, he suggests, lie behind much of the social and political turbulence of modern times as m…
The Earth as Transformed by Human Action
Death by Migration
Leaving Eden
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Environment Under Fire
Atlantic American Societies
Within the chronological framework of Implantation, Maturation and Transition, this book provides the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of slavery. Suggesting a shift in the traditional units of analysis away from nationally defined boundaries, this volume considers all of the Americas - and Africa - to encourage students to see the larger interimperial issues which governed behaviour in …
From Magellan to Miti
Les Européens et la mer au XVIIIe siècle
Ecology, Epidemics and Empires
In the Atlantic American tropics, from Florida to Brazil, yellow fever attacked different populations differently. It killed outsiders more easily than locals, whites more easily than blacks, adults more easily than children. This meant that, after yellow fever was firmly ensconced via an ecological reconfiguration connected to sugar (c. 1640-90) it underpinned a military and political status quo, keeping Spanish America Spanish. After 1780, and …
Ideas Matter
The grand social and ideological systems that people construct for themselves invariably carry large consequences, for the environment no less than for more strictly human affairs. Among the swirl of ideas, policies, and political structures of the twentieth century, the most ecologically influential were the growth imperative and the (not unrelated) security anxiety that together dominated policy around the world. ... By 1970, however, something…
Something New under the Sun
In the course of the 20th century the human race, without intending anything of the sort, undertook a giant, uncontrolled experiment on the earth. In time, according to John McNeill in his new book, the environmental dimension of 20th century history will overshadow the importance of its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, and the spread of mass literacy. Contrary to the wisdom of Ecclesiastes that there is nothing new under the sun, McNe…
Something New under the Sun
Juan Fermin de Aycinena
Defending the Jaguar
Within the thin literature on Latin American environmental history, the strongest work has been done on Brazil and Mexico. Historians of Mexico have always taken the countryside seriously, but the extraordinary ecological transformations of Mexico City in recent times have inspired some Mexicanists to study urban environmental history. Lane Simonian is perhaps the first scholar to analyze the history of environmental thought, policy, and politics…
An Empire Divided
Journal Article An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. By Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xviii, 357 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8122-3558-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-8122-1732-2.) J. R. McNeill J. R. McNeill Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, …
Atlantic American Societies
Europe's Place in the Global History of Biological Exchange
This paper provides a framework for the European history of biological exchange and biological invasion. It distinguishes four main eras of heightened biological exchange. The first came with the introduction to Europe of the neolithic complex of domesticated plants and animals. The second was associated with the increased trade and travel of the pax romana. The third came with increased connections to Asia and the Indian Ocean world in the era o…
The Human Web
World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose…
Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History
This article aims to consider the robust field of environmental history as a whole, as it stands and as it has developed over the past twenty-five years around the world. It necessarily adopts a selective approach but still offers more breadth than depth. It treats the links between environmental history and other fields within history, and with other related disciplines such as geography. It considers the precursors of environmental history, its…
The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics
In the last 20 years, archeologists have undertaken considerable research into the paleoecology of the American tropics. New methods have not only provided new answers to old questions but also raised new questions. This book attempts to synthesize the information and inferences flowing from that research, focusing on the emergence of agriculture in the lands between southern Mexico and southern Amazonia below 1,200 meters elevation. It surveys t…
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