Alkuteos: The Human Web. A Birds'eye View of World History

suom. Natasha Vilokkinen

Historioitsijat J.R. ja William McNeill tarkastelevat uusimmassa teoksessaan sivilisaatioiden kehitystä ja historiallista globalisaatiota. Ihmisten keskinäinen vuorovaikutus, tavar[...]

"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 number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human [...]

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 disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mex[...]