J. R. McNeill
J. R. McNeill is professor of history 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 Chevy Chase, Maryland.
J. R. McNeill
J. R. McNeill is professor of history 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 Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Awards
Winner — World History Association Bentley Book Prize, 2001
Books by J. R. McNeill

The Webs of Humankind: A World History
J. R. McNeill
Seagull Second Edition, Combined Volume, E Book
Give your students a bird’s-eye view of world history
The Webs of Humankind: A World History
J. R. McNeill
Seagull Second Edition, Volume 1, E Book
Give your students a bird’s-eye view of world history
The Webs of Humankind: A World History
J. R. McNeill
Seagull Second Edition, Volume 2, E Book
Give your students a bird’s-eye view of world history
Something New Under the Sun
J. R. McNeill, Bathsheba Demuth
Paperback, 2026
The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first



