The rise of the West

A history of the human community : with a retrospective essay

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20002992
AutoresWilliam Hardy Mcneill, Bela Petheo
Año1991
Páginas828
Fecha de publicación1991-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaThe rise of the West (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
OpenAlexW642481210
Open LibraryOL1545084M
ISBN9780226561417
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas78

Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled The Rise of the after Twenty-five Years, McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind.-H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review

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