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The Webs of Humankind

J. R. McNeill

Give your students a bird's-eye view of world history

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The Mountains of the Mediterranean World

J. R. McNeill

This is an environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and…

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

J. R. McNeill

Through this environmental history of the people and planet in the global 20th century, McNeill explores the massive change in our physical world and argues that environmental degradation is reversible…

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The Webs of Humankind: A World History

J. R. McNeill (Georgetown University)

A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction, in a portable value format.

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

J. R. McNeill (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries.

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

J. R. McNeill (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries.

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The Cambridge World History

Leading scholars examine the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750 in terms of structures, processes, regions, and events.

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The Cambridge World History

Leading scholars examine the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750 in terms of structures, processes, regions, and events.

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Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990

A Political and Comparative History of Environmentalism and Environmental Policy in the Communist and Capitalist Worlds During the Cold War Years

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The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection, 1750-Present, Part 1, Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making

Leading scholars examine the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750 in terms of structures, processes, regions, and events.

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The Cambridge World History, Part 2, Shared Transformations?

Leading scholars examine the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750 in terms of structures, processes, regions, and events.

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The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945

J. R. McNeill,Peter Engelke

The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age-the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing…

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Environmental Histories of the Cold War

Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment - ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions…

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Environmental Histories of the Cold War

Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment - ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions…

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A Companion to Global Environmental History

J McNeill

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past…

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A Companion to Global Environmental History

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, providing an essential road map to past interpretations…

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Human Web: A Bird’s Eye View of World History

J.R. McNeil,William H. McNeill

Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project…

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The Resilient City in World War II: Urban Environmental Histories

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and…

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The Resilient City in World War II: Urban Environmental Histories

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and…

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Environmental Histories of the First World War

This anthology surveys the neglected environmental dimensions of industrial warfare in World War I. The authors show how the War ushered in enormous changes, including the devastation of rural and…

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Environmental Histories of the First World War

This anthology surveys the neglected environmental dimensions of industrial warfare in World War I. The authors show how the War ushered in enormous changes, including the devastation of rural and…

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Global Interdependence: The World after 1945

Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of WWII to the present, an era when transnational communities challenged the long domination of the nation-state. Leading…

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Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change

Providing an overview of the ecological dimension of economic processes, this book presents a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems. It also contains reflections by Immanuel…

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Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change

Providing an overview of the ecological dimension of economic processes, this book presents a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems. It also contains reflections by Immanuel…

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Uses of Inorganic Chemistry in Medicine

Approaches an understanding of the topic in a didactic and systematic manner.

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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean

Philip J. Morgan (Harry C. Black Professor of History, Harry C. Black Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University),John R. McNeill (University Professor, University Professor, Georgetown University),Matthew Mulcahy (Professor of History, Professor of History, Loyola University Maryland),Stuart B. Schwartz (George Burton Adams Professor of History, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University)

The first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.

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