William H. McNeill (historian)
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William Hardy McNeill (October 31, 1917 – July 8, 2016) was a historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward, first postulated in The Rise of the West (1963). He was the Robert A. Milikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1987.
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Works
- (1947). The Greek Dilemma War And Aftermath J. B. Lippincott Company, London: Victor Gollancz
- (1949). History of Western Civilization: A Handbook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 6th edition, 1986. Template:ISBN.
- (1954) Past and Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- "The Introduction of the Potato into Ireland," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 21, No. 3, September 1949
- (1963). The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Revised edition, 1991. Template:ISBN.
- (1964). Europe's Steppe Frontier: 1500-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- (1973). "The Ecumene: Story of Humanity". Harper & Row. 0065520424
- (1974). The Shape of European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN
- (1974). Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Template:ISBN.
- (1976). Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday. Template:ISBN.
- (1979). Template:Citation
- (1980). The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Template:ISBN
- (1982). The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Template:ISBN
- (1989). Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN
- (1991). Hutchins' University. A Memoir of the University of Chicago. 1929-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Template:ISBN
- (1992). The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, & Community. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- (1995). Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- (1998). A World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 4th edition. (First published 1967).<ref name=McNeill1979bio/> Template:ISBN
- (2003). The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (with J. R. McNeill). New York: W. W. Norton. Template:ISBN
- (2005). Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (with Jerry H. Bentley, David Christian et al., editors). 5 volumes. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group. Template:ISBN.
- (2005). The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
- (2009). Summers Long Ago: On Grandfather's Farm and in Grandmother's Kitchen. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group. Template:ISBN.
- (2011). Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, 2nd Edition (with Jerry H. Bentley, David Christian et al., editors). 6 volumes. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group. Template:ISBN.
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