J R Mcneill
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 177154 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J R Mcneill |
| PRENOMES | J R |
| SOBRENOME | Mcneill |
| ASSINATURA | MCNEILL J R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Georgetown University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 207 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Globalizing Europe
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
The Pacific World in the Round
Martin V. Melosi, Water in North American Environmental History
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…
Ideas Matter
Excerpts from a Current History essay published two decades ago
Epidemics and Society
Reviewed by: Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present by Frank M. Snowden J. R. McNeill Frank M. Snowden. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. Open Yale Courses Series. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. xiii + 582 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-300-19221-6). Frank Snowden completed this book before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. But like many historians of disease, he saw something like this coming. He…
In Memoriam
Peak Document and the Future of History
Among the ongoing revolutions in historical research is the flood of new information about the past that comes not from written documents but from the natural sciences and archaeology. What might this mean for the profession of history, and for our training and institutional practices? How might it affect our research and interpretations of the past? Which fields of history will be most and least affected? I argue for a cautious embrace of the ne…
Epilogue
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…
The Global Condition
William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together two of William Hardy McNeill's popular short books and an essay. The Human Condition provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human;…
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…
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…
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…
The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene
The River People in Flood Time
In this book, Terry Rugeley's fourth on southeastern Mexico in the nineteenth century, soggy Tabasco plays the starring role. Rugeley casts it as a “spoiler of empires,” lumping it together with Afghanistan and Vietnam as places that successfully defied great powers. The powers defied by Tabasco were not so great as those repelled by Afghanistan and Vietnam: Agustín de Iturbide's fledgling monarchy, a centralizing Mexico, the US navy of the 1840s…
Cambridge World History
Harrison, Globalization, and the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease
Harrison, Globalization, and the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease J. R. McNeill (bio) When I agreed to comment upon Marc Harrison’s article on globalizing the history of health, disease, and medicine I did not realize what a difficult task that would prove to be. Harrison made it hard for me by recommending to his colleagues in the field just what I would recommend: a more global outlook, one that does justice to both comparison and conne…
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 …
The Great Acceleration
Earth has entered a new age-the Anthropocene-in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. The accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, climate change, urbanisation, and environmentalism. Human dependence on fossil fuels inau…
President's Address
Ship of Death
Afterword
This Afterword argues that for many centuries international systems and inter-imperial systems were mismatched to the transnational and trans-imperial issues that they faced. The present mismatch between an international system with more than 200 sovereign states and the global environmental problems of today is in this respect nothing new. By examining the history of the marginalization of slavery, piracy, and infectious disease, all of which re…
The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
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…
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…
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, …
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 …
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…
Peak Document and the Future of History
Among the ongoing revolutions in historical research is the flood of new information about the past that comes not from written documents but from the natural sciences and archaeology. What might this mean for the profession of history, and for our training and institutional practices? How might it affect our research and interpretations of the past? Which fields of history will be most and least affected? I argue for a cautious embrace of the ne…
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 …
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…
Kif in the Rif
In the last century marijuana (kiJ) has become a crop of increasing importance to the rapidly growing population of the Rif mountains (northern Morocco). Once grown chiefly for domestic use, both for its fiber and its narcotic quality, since the 1960s kif has been the leading export crop of the Rif. The best soils are now used for kif production. Production has increased exponentially in response to northern European demand for Rifian marijuana. …
The Earth as Transformed by Human Action
Leaving Eden
John Nelson
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them. Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost…
Montagnes D'Afrique, Terres Paysannes
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 …
Citizens of the World
Les Européens et la mer au XVIIIe siècle
Les Europeens et la mer au XVIII siecle
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
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
Something New under the Sun
There is good reason to be skeptical about a book that undertakes to chronicle the environmental history of the twentieth-century world. This is a gargantuan subject: there are hundreds of stories to tell, complex patterns to decipher, and an enormous body of secondary literature to digest and synthesize. Yet J. R. McNeill has pulled it off. In this single volume he lays out in readable fashion the most significant development in human history si…
Environmental History in the Pacific World
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…
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…
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