J. R. McNeill

J. R. McNeill
Born	John Robert McNeill (1954-10-06) October 6, 1954 (age 70) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Parent	William H. McNeill
Awards	Heineken Prize (2018)
Academic background
Alma mater	Swarthmore College Duke University

Books

• The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1985, ISBN   978-0-807-86567-5.
• The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN   978-0-521-52288-5.
• Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World . New York: Norton, 2000, ISBN   978-0-140-29509-2.
• With William H. McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History . New York: Norton, 2003, ISBN   978-0-393-92568-5.
• Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN   978-0-521-45910-5.
• With Peter Engelke. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016, ISBN   978-0-674-54503-8.
• The Webs of Humankind: A World History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2020 (2 vols.) ISBN   978-0-393-42877-3
• With Philip Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy and Stuart Schwartz. Sea & Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 9780197555453

Articles

• McNeill, John R. (Fall 2003). "Theses on Radkau". Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. 33: 45–52.
• McNeill, J. R. (December 2003). "Observations on the nature and culture of environmental history". History and Theory. 42 (4): 5–43. doi:10.1046/j.1468-2303.2003.00255.x.
• With Verena Winiwarter. McNeill, J. R.; Winiwarter, V. (11 June 2004). "Breaking the Sod: Humankind, History, and Soil". Science . 304 (5677): 1627–1629. Bibcode:2004Sci...304.1627M. doi:10.1126/science.1099893. PMID   15192217. S2CID   22262504.
• With Will Steffen and Paul J. Crutzen. Steffen, Will; Crutzen, Paul J.; McNeill, John R. (December 2007). "The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature". Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment. 36 (8): 614–621. doi:10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[614:TAAHNO]2.0.CO;2. hdl: 1885/29029 . PMID   18240674. S2CID   16218015.
• Steffen, W.; Grinevald, J.; Crutzen, P.; McNeill, J. (2011). "The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A. 369 (1938): 842–867. Bibcode:2011RSPTA.369..842S. doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0327. PMID   21282150. S2CID   190418.

McNeill, J.R. "Peak Document and the Future of History," American Historical Review 125(2020), 1-18.

References

1. G. John Ikenberry (May–June 2003). "Capsule Review: The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
2. "William H. McNeill, Pioneering World Historian, 1917–2016". University of Chicago News. 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
3. "John McNeill". Walsh School of Foreign Service. Georgetown University. Archived from the original on 2 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
4. Lewis, Martin W. (January 2000). "Reviewed Work: Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World by J. R. McNeill". Geographical Review. 90 (1): 147–149. doi:10.2307/216186. JSTOR   216186.
5. Teresi, Dick (25 June 2000). "It's Been Hell on Earth". New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
6. Richard N. Cooper (July–August 2000). "Capsule Review: Something New Under the Sun". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
7. Soluri, John (Fall 2002). "Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (review)" . Journal of Social History. 36 (1): 183–185. doi:10.1353/jsh.2002.0109. S2CID   145114354.
8. J. R. McNeill (18 October 2010). "Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War". Washington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
9. Espinosa, Mariola (Winter 2011). "Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 41 (3): 483–484. doi:10.1162/JINH_r_00140. S2CID   195826775.
10. Dillman, Jefferson (October 2012). "Review of McNeill, J. R., Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914". H-Caribbean, H-Net Reviews. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
11. Peter Engelke; J.R. McNeill (21 April 2016). "Earth Day: Are we at the beginning of a new geological era?". Washington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
12. "2010 Award Winners". PROSE Awards. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN