The Global Condition : : Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community / / William Hardy McNeill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017
• VerfasserIn: McNeill, William Hardy,
• TeilnehmendeR: McNeill, J.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; Part I. The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times --; Acknowledgments --; Lecture I: To 1750 --; Lecture II: From 1750 --; Part II. The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View --; Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Urban Transmutation --; Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Commercial Transmutation --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400885107; 9783110543322
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400885107?locatt=mode:legacy
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William Hardy McNeill.

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 Great Frontier questions the notion of "frontier freedom" through an examination of European expansion; the concluding essay speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives.