William H Mcneill
Biographic Data
| ID | 219483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Mcneill |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcneill |
| SIGNATURE | MCNEILL W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 166 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 166 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Commercial Transmutation
IN MY FIRST lecture I traced the development of humanity to its achievement of a potentially stable pattern of life under conditions of civilization. By about 1 A.D., commands issued from a sovereign center and applied locally by bureaucratic agents of a distant ruler acting in uneasy collaboration with local landlords, chieftains, and other men of power could regulate and (more or less) safeguard the sorts of mutual dependency that urban special…
A Sense of Time: Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Heidegger on the Temporality of Life
The phenomenon of movement in the broadest sense appears to be essential to any and every understanding of life. And this would seem to imply that all life is constituted by temporality as its very condition. Yet does this entail that everything that lives also has a sense of time? Aristotle in several places writes of a "sense of time"; yet it is only certain living beings, not all, that possess this sense of time, he claims. Nietzsche gives us …
Histoire mondiale: L'essor et le déclin de l'Occident
Big History in Brief
Violence & submission in the human past
Afterword: World History and Globalization
The repopulation of the Americas in historical perspective
Migration is as old as humankind, a phenomenon that lies at the root of human dispersal across both ecological and cultural frontiers. It seems safe to assume that population growth and conflicts within and between adjacent bands were instrumental in the initial human dispersal. Then came a second wave of migration, leading to permanent settlements at places where food resources were either abundant, or could easily be concentrated. Eventually, a…
At the End of an Age
Book reviewed in this article: John Lukacs, At the End of an Age
Passing Strange: The Convergence of Evolutionary Science with Scientific History
In the second half of the twentieth century, a surprising change in the notion of scientific truth gained ground when an evolutionary cosmology made the Newtonian world machine into no more than a passing phase of the cosmos, subject to exceptions in the neighborhood of black holes and other unusual objects. Physical and chemical laws ceased to be eternal and universal and became local and changeable, that is, fundamentally historical instead, an…
Fernand Braudel, Historian
Pathmarks
Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
Vestal Fire is Stephen Pyne's masterpiece. In it, he offers nothing less than a retelling of all of European history from a vantage point no other historian has ever adopted so consistently before: that of the fire which in Pyne's view burns at the very heart of Western civilization. -- from the ForewordStephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologis…
An imperative of civilization
War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000
History and the Scientific Worldview
Worldviews affect human behavior, and how we behave affects the world around us. Animism and so-called higher religions remain influential worldviews; but the scientific worldview is comparably significant, and has undergone drastic change during the twentieth century. The physical science ideal of mathematical precision and predictability, as elaborated by Galileo, Newton, and their heirs, underwent an amazing transformation in the twentieth cen…
Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History
The Origins of Western Warfare: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World
Introduction -- In the Beginning -- Primitive Warfare -- Chiefdoms, States, and Empires -- Greek Warfare -- The Greek Way of War -- The Ethics of Greek Warfare -- The Greeks and Raison d'Etat -- Warfare and the Greek Constitution -- Roman Warfare -- The Roman Way of War -- The Ethics of Roman Warfare -- The Romans and Raison d' Etat -- Warfare and the Roman Constitution -- The Classical Legacy -- Warfare in Medieval Thought -- Warfare in Renaissa…
What we mean by the west
Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History
A Swan Song for British Liberalism?
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II . Gerhard L. Weinberg
The Changing Shape of World History
L'A. passe en revue le developpement des vues historiques mondiales d'Herodote et Ssu-ma Chen a Spengler et Toynbee, et expose sa propre conception de la meilleure approche de l'histoire mondiale, en s'interrogeant tout particulierement sur le statut de l'Europe comme centre a partir duquel comprendre les autres peuples
Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44. Mark Mazower
Wallerstein's Vision of Past and Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade [and Comments and Replies]
Most studies of ancient trade, it is argued, have tended to isolate the subject too narrowly as habitual patterns in the movement of goods. New knowledge continues to be generated using that approach, partly as a result of recent technical advances in archaeology. Substantial further progress, however, will require an understanding of the more complex and multifaceted significance of trade that must be derived mainly from ethnographic and ethnohi…
Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800
In Europe's Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which inspired but also blinded most of the historians of the region. Moreov…
Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
Historical Patterns of Migration [and Comments and Reply]
This article describes the migratory patterns resulting from differential incidence of lethal infections in traditional Eurasian civilizations. Further, it examines how changes in modern communication and public health management have interrupted the traditional patterns of population circulation. The communication of infection influenced the standard mass migration patterns for traditional Eurasian civilization. The rural flow to urban centers a…
Plough, Sword and Book. The Structure of Human History
Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History
Human Migration in Historical Perspective
Once civilized societies had taken root in the Far East in India and around the eastern Mediterranean as well as in the Middle East the resulting social diversity complicated and at the same time structured subsequent patterns of human migration. It is possible to distinguish 4 possible forms of migration: radical displacement of 1 population by another as a result of systematic exercise of force; conquest of 1 population by another leading to sy…
The Changing Shape of World History
L'A. passe en revue le developpement des vues historiques mondiales d'Herodote et Ssu-ma Chen a Spengler et Toynbee, et expose sa propre conception de la meilleure approche de l'histoire mondiale, en s'interrogeant tout particulierement sur le statut de l'Europe comme centre a partir duquel comprendre les autres peuples
The Care and Repair of Public Myth
yth lies at the basis of human society. That is because myths are general statements about the world and its parts, and in particular about nations and other human in-groups, that are believed to be true and then acted on whenever circumstances suggest or require common response. This is mankind's substitute for instinct. It is the unique and characteristic human way of acting together. A people without a full quiver of relevant agreed upon state…
The Dynamics of Modernization: A Study in Comparative History, by C. E. Black
Passing Strange: The Convergence of Evolutionary Science with Scientific History
In the second half of the twentieth century, a surprising change in the notion of scientific truth gained ground when an evolutionary cosmology made the Newtonian world machine into no more than a passing phase of the cosmos, subject to exceptions in the neighborhood of black holes and other unusual objects. Physical and chemical laws ceased to be eternal and universal and became local and changeable, that is, fundamentally historical instead, an…
Hunger in history food shortage, poverty and deprivation
Winds of Change
The Introduction of the Potato into Ireland
The Eccentricity of Wheels, or Eurasian Transportation in Historical Perspective
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
Human Migration: Patterns and Policies
British Foreign Policy in the Second World War
Chief of Staff: Pre-war Plans and Preparations
Chief of Staff: Pre-war Plans and Preparations Chief of Staff: Pre-war Plans and Preparations. By Mark Skinner Watson. Foreword by Orlando Ward. Washington, Historical Division, Department of the Army, 1950. xx+551 pp. Charts. Bibliog. Index. (United States Army in World War II. The War Department.) 10′ ′×714′ ′ . $3.75. W. H. Mcneill W. H. Mcneill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Vol…
Fernand Braudel, Historian
History and the Scientific Worldview
Worldviews affect human behavior, and how we behave affects the world around us. Animism and so-called higher religions remain influential worldviews; but the scientific worldview is comparably significant, and has undergone drastic change during the twentieth century. The physical science ideal of mathematical precision and predictability, as elaborated by Galileo, Newton, and their heirs, underwent an amazing transformation in the twentieth cen…
What we mean by the west
Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War
Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends
The Introduction of the Potato into Ireland
The History and Social Influence of the Potato . Redcliffe N. Salaman , W. G. Burton
Chief of Staff: Pre-war Plans and Preparations
Chief of Staff: Pre-war Plans and Preparations Chief of Staff: Pre-war Plans and Preparations. By Mark Skinner Watson. Foreword by Orlando Ward. Washington, Historical Division, Department of the Army, 1950. xx+551 pp. Charts. Bibliog. Index. (United States Army in World War II. The War Department.) 10′ ′×714′ ′ . $3.75. W. H. Mcneill W. H. Mcneill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Vol…
Major Problems of United States Foreign Policy 1951–2
A Cartesian Historian
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America, Britain and Russia, Their Co-operation and Conflict, 1941-1946
Journal Article America, Britain and Russia, Their Co-operation and Conflict, 1941-1946 Get access America, Britain and Russia, Their Co-operation and Conflict, 1941-1946. By W. H. Mcneill. (London: Oxford University Press, for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1953. Pp. 819. 63s.) F. Thistlethwaite F. Thistlethwaite St. John's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jou…
Die Welt der Ägypter . Walther Wolf , Helmuth Th. Bossert
The Dynamics of World History. Christopher Dawson
A History of Hungary, 1929-1946 . C. A. Macartney
Feudalism in History . Rushton Coulborn
Atlas of World History . R. R. Palmer
The Cretan Drama: The Life and Memoirs of Prince George of Greece, High Commissioner in Crete (1898-1906) . A. A. Pallis
The Dynamics of Communism in Eastern Europe . R. V. Burks
Political Messianism: The Romantic Phase . J. L. Talmon
British Foreign Policy in the Second World War
The Education of Historians in the United States . Dexter Perkins , John L. Snell
Independent Eastern Europe: A History . C. A. Macartney , A. W. Palmer
Greece and the Great Powers, 1944-47: "Prelude to the "Truman Doctrine . Stephen G. Xydis
July 1914: July 1964
The Old Kingdom in Egypt and the Beginnings of the First Intermediate Period . W. Stevenson Smith The Middle Kingdom in Egypt: Internal History from the Rise of the Heracleopolitans to the Death of Am…
Svetozar Markovic and the Origins of Balkan Socialism . Woodford D. McClellan History of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia . Ivan Avakumovic Communism in Rumania, 1944-62 . Ghita Ionescu Communist Eas…
The Challenge of Modernisation. The West's Impact on the Non-Western World
Europe's Steppe Frontier: 1500-1800. A Study of the Eastward Movement in Europe
The Development of Secularism in Turkey. Niyazi Berkes
Revolution and Defeat: The Story of the Greek Communist Party . D. George Kousoulas
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