The pursuit of truth : a historian's memoir / William H. McNeill.

By:

McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-2016

Material type: Text

TextPublisher number: EB00784896 | Recorded BooksPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0813172047
9780813172040
1283233010
9781283233019
9786613233011
6613233013
9780813137254
081313725X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pursuit of truth.DDC classification:

907/.2/02 B 22

LOC classification:

D15.M38 A3 2005eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

From childhood to World War II, 1917-1941 -- From basic training to the rise of the West, 1941-1963 -- From the rise of the West to plagues and peoples, 1963-1976 -- From plagues and peoples to retirement, 1976-1987 -- Retirement in Colebrook, 1987-

Summary: William H. McNeill's seminal book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) received the National Book Award in 1964 and was named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. From his post at the University of Chicago, McNeill became the first contemporary North American historian to write world history in the light of anthropological, epidemiological, and technological ideas. A candid, intellectual memoir from one of the most famous and influential historians of our era, The Pursuit of Truth maps the life and career of a man who cha.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.

William H. McNeill's seminal book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) received the National Book Award in 1964 and was named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. From his post at the University of Chicago, McNeill became the first contemporary North American historian to write world history in the light of anthropological, epidemiological, and technological ideas. A candid, intellectual memoir from one of the most famous and influential historians of our era, The Pursuit of Truth maps the life and career of a man who cha.

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English.

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