The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History Paperback – December 15, 2003
Author: J. R. McNeill | Language: English | ISBN: 0393925684 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Free download Download Free The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History – December 15, 2003 from with Mediafire Link Download Link Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once? World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities twelve thousand years ago, through the denser, more interactive metropolitan webs that surrounded ancient Sumer, Athens, and Timbuktu, to the electrified global web that today envelops virtually the entire world in a maelstrom of cooperation and competition, J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill show human webs to be a key component of world history and a revealing framework of analysis. Avoiding any determinism, environmental or cultural, the McNeills give us a synthesizing picture of the big patterns of world history in a rich, open-ended, concise account.
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Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Download Free The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History Paperback – December 15, 2003 The Human Web A Bird s Eye View of World History The Human Web is an excellent summary of human history It is indeed a bird s eye view in that it looks at the broad overall sweep of human affairs Hettinger Bibliography College of Charleston Hettinger Bibliography mainly on ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY INCLUDING ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND ANIMAL
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (December 15, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393925684
- ISBN-13: 978-0965739658
- Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 0.1 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #38 in Books > Computers & Technology > History & Culture > History
The Human Web, by a distinguished father-son team of historians, is a remarkable book. McNeill and McNeill endeavor to cover all of human history in 327 pages. Their analytical framework focues on the gradual emergence of regional "webs" of economic and cultural exchange, and consequently emphasizes demographic and economic themes over political, religious, and intellectual ones. Their treatment of politics and religion is sound but often cursory; what really excites the McNeills is how particular technologies moved around and how quickly particular populations grew. While I thought that the McNeills sometimes gave short shrift to the ways in which ideas can motivate people, I found their depiction of the emergence of a world-wide "human web" extremely compelling.
No one could accuse the McNeills of being timid in their approach to historical analysis. What delighted me most about this book were the bold international comparisons--"Travelers may notice that people in those parts of Europe where cooperative moldboard plowing once prevailed still obey rules, form queues, and in general trust one another more than do the inhabitants of lands where separate families cultivated their fields independently and often distrusted their neighbors because of boundary disputes or the like" (142)--and the stark statistics that contextualize key events--"World War II killed about 3 percent of the world's 1940 population" (298). I take each of these statements with a grain of salt-- we don't know exactly how many people died in World War II, though 60 million is a reasonable estimate, and it's unlikely that historical farming patterns fully account for differences in national character, which in any case is constantly in flux. But what powerful ideas!
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