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Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject: William H. McNeill Died...? |
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Had not heard this. Just read it on Wikipedia.
Anyone read his Plagues and Peoples? First-rate account. Medical history. Worth reading multiple times. Check it out if you have time.
Here is a Wikipedia excerpt on McNeill...
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William Hardy McNeill (born October 31, 1917, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a world historian. He is among the world's most respected historians and was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. He has now retired and until his death in 2006 lived with his wife.
McNeill's most popular work is The Rise of the West. The book explored world history in terms of the effect of different old world civilizations on one another, and especially the dramatic effect of Western civilization on others in the past 500 years. It had a major impact on historical theory, especially its emphasis on cultural fusions, in distinction to Oswald Spengler's view of discrete, independent civilizations. |
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