William H. McNeill
William H. McNeill is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Pursuit of Truth: A Historian's Memoir and A Boyhood Memory: Long Ago on Grandfather's Farm, which is currently in search of a publisher. (April 2008)
From the Review
April 17, 2008: Man Slaughters Man
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan
November 22, 2007: 'Shall We Dance?' (letter)
September 27, 2007: Shall We Dance?
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
April 12, 2007: How the Winds Changed History
Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
December 21, 2006: Conspicuous Proliferation
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today by Max Boot
October 19, 2006: Secrets of the Cave Paintings
The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists by Gregory Curtis
June 22, 2006: Watch on the Rhine
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany by David Blackbourn
April 27, 2006: Beyond Words
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen
January 12, 2006: The Man Who Changed History
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin
December 1, 2005: New World Symphony
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
September 22, 2005: Ah, Wilderness!
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks by Bill McKibben
Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics, and the Fate of All Humanity by Nathaniel Tripp, with a foreword by Howard Dean
November 18, 2004: Alive! (letter)
October 21, 2004: Bigger and Better?
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100:Europe, America, and the Third World by Robert William Fogel
April 8, 2004: Weapon of Mass Destruction
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry
May 23, 2002: The Big R
Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn C. Loury
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery by David Brion Davis
December 20, 2001: The Conservation of Catastrophe
Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 by Stephen J. Pyne
Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire by Murry A. Taylor
Fire by Sebastian Junger
September 20, 2001: Continental Choo-Choo
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose
June 29, 2000: A Short History of Humanity
April 27, 2000: Goodbye to the Bison
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 by Andrew C. Isenberg
February 10, 2000: The Flu of Flus
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata
September 23, 1999: The Greatest Might-Have-Been of All
November 5, 1998: Vivacious Ghost
How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History by Stephen J. Pyne
April 23, 1998: How the West Won
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
June 26, 1997: 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' (letter)
May 15, 1997: History Upside Down
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
January 9, 1997: Decline of the West?
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
June 20, 1996: The Great Contest
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis
Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Bernard Lewis
July 21, 1983: The Plague of Plagues
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe by Robert S. Gottfried
Books by William H. McNeill
Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of the World History (2002)
The Disruption of Traditional Forms of Nurture (1998)
Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History (1995)
The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community (1992)
Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 (1991)
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community: With a Retrospective Essay (1991)
Population and Politics Since 1750 (1990)
The Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800 (1989)
Arnold J. Toynbee, a Life (1989)
History of Western Civilization: A Handbook (1986)
Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History (1986)
Mythistory and Other Essays (1986)
The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times (1983)
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000 (1982)
The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View (1980)
The Metamorphosis of Greece Since World War II (1978)
Plagues and Peoples (1976)
The Shape of European Histor (1974)
Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797 (1974)
A World History (1971)