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William Hardy McNeill (born 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 lives 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. McNeill is the son of theologian James T. McNeill and the father of historian, J. R. McNeill. His most recent book, with his son, is The Human Web.
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(2005). The Pursuit of truth: A Historian's memoir.
(2003). The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History. W. W. Norton & Co Inc. ISBN 0-393-92568-4
(1998). A World History. Oxford University Press; 4th edition. ISBN 0-19-511616-X
(1995). Keeping together in time. Dance and Drill in the human history.
(1991) "Hutchins' University. A Memoir of the University of Chicago. 1929-1950". The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-56170-4.
(1982). The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-56157-7
(1980). The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 0-691-05317-0
(1976). Plagues and Peoples. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., New York, NY, ISBN 0-385-12122-9.
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