Research Catalog

Title

The global condition : conquerors, catastrophes and community / William H. McNeill ; with a new foreword by J.R. McNeill.

Author

McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-2016

Publication

• Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
• ©1992

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Additional Authors

McNeill, John Robert

Description

xxv, 171 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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. --

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Civilization > History
• Social history
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Emigration and immigration > History
• Civilization > history
• Parasites
• Emigrants and Immigrants
• Social Conditions

Genre/Form

• History
• Lecture
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PART I: THE GREAT FRONTIER: FREEDOM AND HIERARCHY IN MODERN TIMES -- Acknowledgments, p.3 -- Lecture I: To 1750, p.5 -- Lecture II: From 1750, p.33 -- PART II: THE HUMAN CONDITION: AN ECOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL VIEW -- Acknowledgments, p67 -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Urban Transmutation, p.69 -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Commercial Transmutation, p.100 -- PART III: CONTROL AND CATASTROPHE IN HUMAN AFFAIRS, p.133.

ISBN

• 0691174148
• 9780691174143

OCLC

• 958351065
• SCSB-12789835

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library