William H. McNeill (1917–2016)
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William Hardy McNeill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on October 31, 1917. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Chicago. He was drafted in 1941 and served with the Army in Hawaii and the Caribbean and as assistant military attaché to the vis mere Greek and Yugoslavian governments-in-exile in Cairo, Egypt. After the war, he received a doctorate from Cornell University. He was a history professor at the University of Chicago from 1947 until he retired in 1987. He wrote more than 20 books during his lifetime including Plagues and Peoples; The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000; Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life, Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950; and Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community won the 1963 National Book Award for history and the Gordon J. Laing Prize of the University of Chicago. He was the co-author of The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History with his son John Robert McNeill. He also wrote a memoir entitled The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir. He was one of the editors of the Readings in World History Series published by Oxford University Press. He died on July 8, 2016 at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af William H. McNeill
The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View (Bland-Lee lecture series delivered at Clark University, 1979) (1980) 31 eksemplarer
Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 (Centennial Publications of The University… (1991) 28 eksemplarer
Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800 (Essays on Global and Comparative History) (1989) 21 eksemplarer
Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History (Donald G. Creighton Lectures, 1985) (1986) 9 eksemplarer
World history in maps;: A teachers manual for use with Denoyer-Geppert world history series, (1963) 6 eksemplarer
Greece: American aid in action, 1947-1956 1 eksemplar
世界史 II──人類の結びつきと相互作用の歴史 1 eksemplar
世界史 I ── 人類の結びつきと相互作用の歴史 1 eksemplar
戦争の世界史(下) (中公文庫) 1 eksemplar
Europes Steppe Frontier, 15001800 1 eksemplar
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 1 eksemplar
The Hamlyn history of the world in colour. Vol.20, From peace to war into the space age (1970) 1 eksemplar
Colebrook: A Historical Sketch 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Bidragyder — 1,775 eksemplarer
Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education (The Fundamentalism Project) (1993) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets (Columbia Business School Publishing) (2011) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 21 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "Infectious Alternatives" — 15 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1995 (1994) — Author "Keeping Together in Time" — 10 eksemplarer
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society - Fifth Series, Volume 32 (1982) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 7 eksemplarer
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- McNeill, William Hardy
- Fødselsdato
- 1917-10-31
- Dødsdag
- 2016-07-08
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (til kort)
- USA
- Fødested
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Dødssted
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Bopæl
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Uddannelse
- Cornell University (PhD|1947)
University of Chicago (MA|1939)
University of Chicago (BA|1938) - Erhverv
- historian
university professor emeritus - Relationer
- McNeill, John T. (father)
McNeill, J.R. (son) - Organisationer
- University of Chicago
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Humanities Medal (2010)
Erasmus Prize (1996) - Kort biografi
- William H. McNeill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of a Presbyterian minister and historian of Christianity. He graduated from the University of Chicago, where he was editor of the student newspaper, in 1938, and earned a master’s degree with a thesis on Thucydides and Herodotus.
In 1941, during World War II, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. After the war, he earned a doctorate in history at Cornell University and joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he remained until his retirement in 1987.
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