02616nam 2200637 a 450 991096134720332120251017203242.097866132330119781283233019128323301097808131720400813172047(CKB)1000000000461359(EBL)792171(OCoLC)67712798(SSID)ssj0000230860(PQKBManifestationID)11947235(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000230860(PQKBWorkID)10197296(PQKB)11358718(MdBmJHUP)muse13767(Au-PeEL)EBL792171(CaPaEBR)ebr10495306(MiAaPQ)EBC792171(Perlego)2935758(EXLCZ)99100000000046135920041018d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe pursuit of truth a historian's memoir /William H. McNeill1st ed.Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentuckyc20051 online resource (207 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780813137254 081313725X 9780813123455 0813123453 Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-166) and index.From childhood to World War II, 1917-1941 -- From basic training to the rise of the West, 1941-1963 -- From the rise of the West to plagues and peoples, 1963-1976 -- From plagues and peoples to retirement, 1976-1987 -- Retirement in Colebrook, 1987-.William H. McNeill's seminal book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) received the National Book Award in 1964 and was named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. From his post at the University of Chicago, McNeill became the first contemporary North American historian to write world history in the light of anthropological, epidemiological, and technological ideas. A candid, intellectual memoir from one of the most famous and influential historians of our era, The Pursuit of Truth maps the life and career of a man whoHistoriansCanadaBiographyHistorians907/.2/02BMcNeill William Hardy1917-2016.211602MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961347203321The pursuit of truth4353372UNINA