Research Catalog

Title

The global condition : conquerors, catastrophes, and community / William H. McNeill.

Author

McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-2016.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992.

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Details

Description

xv, 171 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Civilization > History
• Social history
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Emigration and immigration > History
• Civilization > history
• Emigration and Immigration > history
• Disasters > history
• Social Conditions
• social history
• 15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general
• Civilization
• Emigration and immigration
• Mensheid
• Expansie (macht)
• Grensgebieden
• Migratie (demografie)
• Ecologische aspecten
• Civilisation > Histoire > Histoire
• Histoire sociale
• Vie des pionniers
• Émigration et immigration > Histoire

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "This book is comprised of The great frontier, originally published by Princeton University Press in 1983; The human frontier published by Princeton University Press in 1979; and "Control and catastrophe in human affairs," published first in Daedalus"--T.p. verso.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times -- Lecture I: To 1750 -- Lecture II: From 1750 -- Pt. II. Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Urban Transmutation -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Commercial Transmutation -- Pt. III. Control and Catastrophe in Human Affairs.

ISBN

• 0691086486
• 9780691086484
• 0691025592
• 9780691025599

LCCN

92016108

OCLC

• ocm25787648
• 25787648
• SCSB-1965898

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library