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- Publications
- Influence
Plagues and Peoples
- W. Mcneill
- Medicine, Economics
- 1 February 1978
This book describes the dramatic impact of infectious diseases on the rise and fall of civilisations. Plague demoralized the Athenian army during the Peloponnesian war, and ravaged the Roman Empire.… Expand
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
- W. Mcneill
- Medicine
- 16 January 1991
Worldwide, between 21 and 50 million people died of influenza during the 1918 pandemic, and within the United States, Crosby figures the total number of deaths at about 650 000. These are substantial… Expand
Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History.
- A. Grau, W. Mcneill
- History
- 1 June 1998
Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History.
- N. Keyfitz, W. Mcneill
- Psychology, Art
- 10 October 1995
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
- J. Guilmartin, W. Mcneill
- Sociology, Engineering
- 1 April 1984
In 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… Expand
The rise of the West : a history of the human community : with a retrospective essay
- W. Mcneill, Béla Petheö
- History
- 1963
"The Rise of the West," winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a… Expand
The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
- J. McNeill, W. Mcneill
- Geography
- 2003
World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original… Expand
Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the 'Immigrant Menace,'
- W. Mcneill
- Medicine
- 3 August 1994
As explained in the last chapter, this book has four themes. First and most prominent is the "double helix of health and fear of the foreign born." Kraut is particularly fond of this awkward… Expand
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
- Geoffrey Symcox, W. Mcneill
- Sociology
- 23 January 1984