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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 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.
Oct 27, 2024 · William H. McNeill was a Canadian American historian who promoted an expansive view of the history of human civilization that enlarged the traditional approach to the subject, most notably in his seminal work The Rise of the West (1963).
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Jul 13, 2016 · William H. McNeill, a prize-winning historian who wove the stories of civilizations into the landmark “The Rise of the West” and helped pioneer the history of disease and epidemics in “Plagues...
Jul 12, 2016 · William H. McNeill, a professor and prolific author whose catholic exploration of world history widened the traditional Eurocentric approach to the subject, died on Friday in Torrington,...
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Jul 13, 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 disease and epidemics in “Plagues and People,” has died at age 98.
