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

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling new book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most signifi

The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 spark

Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914

This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes ma

A World History

William H. McNeill'in 1967'deki ilk baskısından sonra tarihin akışını 1999'a dek getirdiği baskısından, yapıtı 2. baskısından Türkçeye kazandıran Alâeddin Şenel tarafından yeniden çevrildi; 15. baskıda ise Türkçesi gözden geçirild

Power, Politics And Culture

No single book has encompassed the vast scope of Edward Said's erudition quite like Power, Politics and Culture - a collection of his interviews from the last three decades. In these twenty-nine interviews, Said addresses everything from Palestine to Pava

Plagues and Peoples

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of

The Pursuit of Power

s/t: Technology, Armed Force & Society since AD 1000In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frig

What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If #2)

What if Lincoln didn't abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing "what if..." scenarios by some of today's greatest historical minds. A second volume of historical speculation by experts in t

Keeping Together in Time

Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In Keeping Together in Time one of the most widely read and respected historians in America pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic mov