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J. R. McNeill

J. R. McNeill is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of award-winning works in world and environmental history. These include The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History (co-authored with his father and world history pioneer, William H. McNeill), and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, both published by Norton. McNeill is a recent past president of the American Historical Association.

J. R. McNeill

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: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
J. R. McNeill
E Book, 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, 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.