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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