ISBN:
0691174148
,
9780691174143
Language:
English
Pages:
xxv, 171 pages
,
22 cm
Uniform Title:
Works Selections
DDC:
909
Keywords:
Civilization history
;
Parasites
;
Emigrants and Immigrants
;
Civilization History
;
Social history
;
Frontier and pioneer life
;
Emigration and immigration History
;
Civilization
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Frontier and pioneer life
;
Social history
;
Civilization History
;
Social history
;
Frontier and pioneer life
;
Emigration and immigration History
;
Civilization history
;
Parasites
;
Emigrants and Immigrants
;
Civilization - History
;
Social history
;
Frontier and pioneer life
;
Emigration and immigration - History
;
Lectures
;
Siedlungsgrenze
;
Migration
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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. --
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
New Princeton paperback printing, with a new foreword by J.R. McNeill. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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