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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand
sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for
understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass.
Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together
two of William Hardy McNeill's popular short books and an essay.
The Human Condition provides a provocative interpretation of
history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human;
The Great Frontier questions the notion of "frontier freedom"
through an examination of European expansion; the concluding essay
speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives.
Home improvement series following architect George Clarke as he
follows people who are developing their very own small spaces.
Working alongside craftsman William Hardie, George embarks on his
own small space project, building the ultimate family-friendly
studio in his own garden.
A distinguished scholar and the well-known author of The Rise of
the West and Plagues and Peoples, William McNeill has won
widespread recgonition for his ideas on the role of disease in
history. In this elegantly and incisively written work, originally
delivered as the Bland-Lee Lactures at Clark University, he
provides a provocative interpretation in world history using the
concept of parasitism. By comparing the biological organisms that
compete with human beings for food or feed directly upon them
("microparasites") with those people or groups who seize goods or
compel services from other human beings ("macroparasites"),
Professor McNeill shows how changes in the patterns of parasitism
have affected human populations in different regions of the world
throughout history. The author identifies three landmarks of human
ecological history when systematic changes in the balances between
microparasites and macroparasites occured: the advance of our
ancestors to the apex of the food chain, the human penetration of
the colder and dryer zones of the earth, and the establishment of
the agriculture. In an espeically revealing discussion of this last
landmark, he shows how human efforts to achieve successful farming
increased human vulnerability to infection. Irrigation and the use
of the plow created sewage and water supply problems that in turn
brought on new and intensified forms of parasites. In addition,
food harvested and store for use throughout the year became
vulnerable to rats, mice, insects, and molds. These advances not
only increased the number and variety of microparasites; they also
opened the way for macroparasites, that is, the transfer of food by
those who produce it to those who produce it to those who consume
it without themselves having worked in the fields. What then began
as a symbiotic relationship quickly became an exploitative one. As
the author points out, the high yield and dependability of
irrigation plowing tied farmers to the land quite effectually and
made such populations easy targets for tax and rent collectors.
Hence human society in its civilized form came to be fundamentally
divided between hosts and parasites, the ruled and the rulers.
Against this conceptual background of the enveloping balances
between microparasites and macroparasites that have limited human
access to food and energy, Profesor McNeill draws a new historical
picture of the human condition. In doing so, he considers the
development of command versus market economics in the mobilization
of human and material resources, and speculates about the direction
in which these resources are coordinated today. William H. McNeill
is Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor of History at
the University of Chicago. Originally published in 1980. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
A leading American historian examines the character of the
frontiers of European expansion throughout the modern age,
questioning a notion of frontier freedom popular since Turner.
William McNeill argues that social hierarchy characterized the
frontier more often than pioneer equality. As Europeans traveled to
various lands, bringing new diseases to vulnerable natives,
formerly isolated populations died in great numbers, creating an
"open" frontier where labor was scarce. European efforts to develop
frontier areas involved either a radical leveling of the
hierarchies common in Europe itself or, alternatively, their sharp
reinforcement by resort to slavery, serfdom, peonage, and
indentured labor. Juxtaposing national and transnational
experiences and illuminating the complex interchange of peoples
(and illnesses) in the modern era, Professor McNeill brings the
history of the United States into perspective as an example of a
process that encircled the globe. His book clarifies both the
experience of the global frontier and the processes that now mark
the end of hundreds of year of expansion of the European center.
William H. McNeill is Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service
Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His numerous
books include The Rise of the West (Chicago); Plagues and Peoples
(Doubleday); and The Human Condition (Princeton). Originally
published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
A distinguished scholar and the well-known author of The Rise of
the West and Plagues and Peoples, William McNeill has won
widespread recgonition for his ideas on the role of disease in
history. In this elegantly and incisively written work, originally
delivered as the Bland-Lee Lactures at Clark University, he
provides a provocative interpretation in world history using the
concept of parasitism. By comparing the biological organisms that
compete with human beings for food or feed directly upon them
("microparasites") with those people or groups who seize goods or
compel services from other human beings ("macroparasites"),
Professor McNeill shows how changes in the patterns of parasitism
have affected human populations in different regions of the world
throughout history. The author identifies three landmarks of human
ecological history when systematic changes in the balances between
microparasites and macroparasites occured: the advance of our
ancestors to the apex of the food chain, the human penetration of
the colder and dryer zones of the earth, and the establishment of
the agriculture. In an espeically revealing discussion of this last
landmark, he shows how human efforts to achieve successful farming
increased human vulnerability to infection. Irrigation and the use
of the plow created sewage and water supply problems that in turn
brought on new and intensified forms of parasites. In addition,
food harvested and store for use throughout the year became
vulnerable to rats, mice, insects, and molds. These advances not
only increased the number and variety of microparasites; they also
opened the way for macroparasites, that is, the transfer of food by
those who produce it to those who produce it to those who consume
it without themselves having worked in the fields. What then began
as a symbiotic relationship quickly became an exploitative one. As
the author points out, the high yield and dependability of
irrigation plowing tied farmers to the land quite effectually and
made such populations easy targets for tax and rent collectors.
Hence human society in its civilized form came to be fundamentally
divided between hosts and parasites, the ruled and the rulers.
Against this conceptual background of the enveloping balances
between microparasites and macroparasites that have limited human
access to food and energy, Profesor McNeill draws a new historical
picture of the human condition. In doing so, he considers the
development of command versus market economics in the mobilization
of human and material resources, and speculates about the direction
in which these resources are coordinated today. William H. McNeill
is Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor of History at
the University of Chicago. Originally published in 1980. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
A leading American historian examines the character of the
frontiers of European expansion throughout the modern age,
questioning a notion of frontier freedom popular since Turner.
William McNeill argues that social hierarchy characterized the
frontier more often than pioneer equality. As Europeans traveled to
various lands, bringing new diseases to vulnerable natives,
formerly isolated populations died in great numbers, creating an
"open" frontier where labor was scarce. European efforts to develop
frontier areas involved either a radical leveling of the
hierarchies common in Europe itself or, alternatively, their sharp
reinforcement by resort to slavery, serfdom, peonage, and
indentured labor. Juxtaposing national and transnational
experiences and illuminating the complex interchange of peoples
(and illnesses) in the modern era, Professor McNeill brings the
history of the United States into perspective as an example of a
process that encircled the globe. His book clarifies both the
experience of the global frontier and the processes that now mark
the end of hundreds of year of expansion of the European center.
William H. McNeill is Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service
Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His numerous
books include The Rise of the West (Chicago); Plagues and Peoples
(Doubleday); and The Human Condition (Princeton). Originally
published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
In December 1944, following the withdrawal of the German occupation
troops, Athens became the scence of bitter fighting between the
British-sponsored government of George Papandreaou and the Greek
Left. This upheaal and its suppression set the stage for the
full-scale civil war of 1946-1949 and for much that has plagued
that troubled nation ever since. John O. Iatrides examines the
immediate causes of the "Second Round," as this tragedy came to be
called, and analyzes the Allies' reactions to it. His conclusions
are new and important. The real causes are to be found in the
economic, social, political, and psychological exhaustion of
Greece, inherited from the past and aggravated by the war and
occupation. Traditionally this crisis has been regarded as a
reckless bid by the Greek Communist Party to seize power and join
Moscow's clients in the Balkans. This view served as a principal
theme of the Truman Doctrine and a powerful stimulus for the Cold
War. It is now clear that the Soviet Union chose to remain
uninvolved. Knowing this, Churchill intervened in a highhanded
attempt to restore the unwanted monarchy and suppress the entire
republican Left, despite American disapproval of his actions.
Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
In December 1944, following the withdrawal of the German occupation
troops, Athens became the scence of bitter fighting between the
British-sponsored government of George Papandreaou and the Greek
Left. This upheaal and its suppression set the stage for the
full-scale civil war of 1946-1949 and for much that has plagued
that troubled nation ever since. John O. Iatrides examines the
immediate causes of the "Second Round," as this tragedy came to be
called, and analyzes the Allies' reactions to it. His conclusions
are new and important. The real causes are to be found in the
economic, social, political, and psychological exhaustion of
Greece, inherited from the past and aggravated by the war and
occupation. Traditionally this crisis has been regarded as a
reckless bid by the Greek Communist Party to seize power and join
Moscow's clients in the Balkans. This view served as a principal
theme of the Truman Doctrine and a powerful stimulus for the Cold
War. It is now clear that the Soviet Union chose to remain
uninvolved. Knowing this, Churchill intervened in a highhanded
attempt to restore the unwanted monarchy and suppress the entire
republican Left, despite American disapproval of his actions.
Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand
sweep of history. Now two of his popular books and an essay
previously unavailable in book form are brought together in this
new paperback edition. In The Human Condition McNeill provides a
provocative interpretation of history as a competition of
parasites, both biological and human. In The Great Frontier he
questions the notion of "frontier freedom" through an examination
of European expansion. The concluding essay speculates on the role
of catastrophe in our lives. About The Human Condition: "A
remarkable tour de force . . . . An elegant, intelligent and
scholarly essay."--J. H. Hexter, The New York Times Book Review "A
brilliant new interpretation of world history."--David Graber, The
Los Angeles Times Book Review About The Great Frontier: There is
virtually no one in the profession who can match McNeill as a
synthesizer--or, for that matter, as an interdisciplinary
historian. . . . There is more insight in this volume than in
others of double or triple the length."--David Courtwright, Journal
of Interdisciplinary History
Home improvement series following architect George Clarke as he
follows people who are developing their very own small spaces.
Working alongside craftsman William Hardie, George undertakes his
own small space project, building the ultimate woodland cabin. The
duo also embark on a road trip to Italy where they discover some of
the country's finest amazing spaces.
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