The Global Condition : : Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community / / 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 popul...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Urban Transmutation
- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Commercial Transmutation
- Notes
- Index