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William Hardy McNeill (October 31, 1917 – July 8, 2016) [4] was an American historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward, first postulated in The Rise of the West (1963).
Nov 1, 2016 · William H. McNeill, a former president of the AHA and a pioneer in the emergence of world history as a respectable academic field, died on July 8, 2016, at age 98.
Jul 13, 2016 · In 2003, he collaborated with his son, J.R. McNeill, on “The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History.” His memoir, “The Pursuit of Truth,” came out two years later. William Hardy...
Jul 13, 2016 · In 2003, he collaborated with his son, J.R. McNeill, on “The Human Web: A Bird’s Eye View of History.” His memoir, “The Pursuit of Truth,” came out two years later. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jul 12, 2016 · Prof. William H. McNeill, a pioneer in the field of world history and author of the seminal work The Rise of the West, died July 8. He was 98. McNeill, AB’38, AM’39, was a teacher and scholar for four decades at the University of Chicago.
Jul 12, 2016 · NEW YORK (AP) — William H. McNeill, the prize-winning scholar who wove the stories of civilizations worldwide into the landmark “The Rise of the West” and helped pioneer the history of...
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He teamed up with his son, J.R. McNeill, an environmental historian, to write Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History, 2003, producing what he regards as “the best intellectual statement of my understanding of world history.”
