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J. R. McNeill

J. R. McNeill is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University. The author of award-winning works in world and environmental history, he has served as president of the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association. He lives in Maryland.

J. R. McNeill

J. R. McNeill is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University. The author of award-winning works in world and environmental history, he has served as president of the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association. He lives in Maryland.

Awards

Winner — World History Association Bentley Book Prize, 2001

Books by J. R. McNeill

  • The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

    J. R. McNeill, William H. McNeill

    Paperback, 2004

    Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the...
  • Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

    J. R. McNeill

    Paperback, 2001

    "One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
  • The Webs of Humankind: A World History

    J. R. McNeill

    Combined Volume, Paperback, 2020

    A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction that stitched together regions and over time, the globe.
  • Something New Under the Sun

    J. R. McNeill, Bathsheba Demuth

    E Book, 2001

    The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.
  • The Webs of Humankind: A World History

    J. R. McNeill

    Combined Volume, E Book, 2021

    A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction that stitched together regions and over time, the globe.
  • The Webs of Humankind: A World History

    J. R. McNeill

    1, E Book, 2020

    A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction that stitched together regions and over time, the globe.
  • The Webs of Humankind: A World History

    J. R. McNeill

    2, E Book, 2020

    A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction that stitched together regions and over time, the globe.
  • The Webs of Humankind: A World History

    J. R. McNeill

    Seagull Edition, Combined Volume, E Book, 2022

    A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction, in a portable value format.
  • The Webs of Humankind: A World History

    J. R. McNeill

    Seagull Edition, Volume 1, E Book, 2022

    A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction, in a portable value format.
  • The Webs of Humankind: A World History

    J. R. McNeill

    Seagull Edition, 2, E Book, 2022

    A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction, in a portable value format.