William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. Now two of his popular books and an essay previously unavailable in book form are brought together in this new paperback edition. In The Human Condition McNeill provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human. In The Great Frontier he questions the notion of "frontier freedom" through an examination of European expansion. The concluding essay speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives. About The Human Condition: "A remarkable tour de force . . . . An elegant, intelligent and scholarly essay."--J. H. Hexter, The New York Times Book Review "A brilliant new interpretation of world history."--David Graber, The Los Angeles Times Book Review About The Great Frontier: There is virtually no one in the profession who can match McNeill as a synthesizer--or, for that matter, as an interdisciplinary historian. . . . There is more insight in this volume than in others of double or triple the length."--David Courtwright, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
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IN THE LATTER part of the nineteenth century, east coast city dwellers in the United States had difficulty repressing a sense of their own persistent cultural inferiority vis-a-vis London and Paris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban transmutation, commercial transmutation, civilized centers, civilized populations, civilized history, demographic regime, deeper past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, South Africa, North America, World War, Great Frontier, Old World, Latin America, Middle East, Industrial Revolution, Great Britain, Indian Ocean, Near East, Old Believers, Black Sea, Marco Polo, New Zealand New!
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IN THE LATTER part of the nineteenth century, east coast city dwellers in the United States had difficulty repressing a sense of their own persistent cultural inferiority vis-a-vis London and Paris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban transmutation, commercial transmutation, civilized centers, civilized populations, civilized history, demographic regime, deeper past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, South Africa, North America, World War, Great Frontier, Old World, Latin America, Middle East, Industrial Revolution, Great Britain, Indian Ocean, Near East, Old Believers, Black Sea, Marco Polo, New Zealand New!
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- Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill on 4 pages
- The Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb on 4 pages
- Life on the Mississippi (Signet classics) by Mark Twain in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner on page 5, and Back Matter
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- The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production by Hans-Hermann Hoppe on 7 pages
- Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History (Edwin O Reischauer Lectures) by Alexander Woodside on 4 pages
- The Second Twentieth Century: How the Information Revolution Shapes Business, States, and Nations (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) by JEAN-JACQUES ROSA on page 12, page 324, and Back Matter
- International Relations and the Philosophy of History: A Civilizational Approach by A. Nuri Yurdusev in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir by William H. McNeill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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