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Autore: |
McNeill William Hardy
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Titolo: |
The Global Condition : Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community / / William Hardy McNeill
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Pubblicazione: | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2017] |
©2017 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 pages) |
Disciplina: | 909 |
Soggetto topico: | Civilization - History |
Emigration and immigration - History | |
Frontier and pioneer life | |
Social history | |
HISTORY / Europe / General | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
McNeillJ
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Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I. The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times -- Acknowledgments -- Lecture I: To 1750 -- Lecture II: From 1750 -- Part II. The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View -- Acknowledgments -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Urban Transmutation -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Commercial Transmutation -- Notes -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together two of William Hardy McNeill's popular short books and an essay. The Human Condition provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human; The Great Frontier questions the notion of "frontier freedom" through an examination of European expansion; the concluding essay speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Global Condition ![]() |
ISBN: | 9781400885107 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910163941103321 |
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