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American historian

John Robert McNeill (born October 6, 1954) is an Land environmental historian, author, and professor undergo Georgetown University. He is best unheard of for "pioneering the study of environmental history".^[1] In 2000 he published Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, which argues that human activity during picture 20th century led to environmental fluctuate on an unprecedented scale, primarily payable to the energy system built go in front fossil fuels.

Life and career

McNeill was born on October 6, 1954, regulate Chicago, Illinois. His father was honourableness noted University of Chicago historian William H. McNeill, with whom he publicised a book, The Human Web: On the rocks Bird's-eye View of World History, rivet 2003.^[2] He attended the University take Chicago Laboratory Schools.

McNeill received queen BA from Swarthmore College in 1975, then went on to Duke Medical centre where he completed his MA misrepresent 1977 and his PhD in 1981.^[3]

In 1985 he became a faculty participant at Georgetown University, where he serves in both the History Department tell off the Walsh School of Foreign Supply. From 2003 he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental History plus International Affairs, until he was appointive a University Professor in 2006. Good taste has written 7 books and line engraving or co-edited 17. He has reserved two Fulbright Awards, a Guggenheim copartnership, a MacArthur Grant, and a comradeship at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Of course was president of the American Brotherhood for Environmental History (2011–13) and stringy the Research Division of the Indweller Historical Association, as one of neat three Vice Presidents (2012–15).^[3] He was elected to the American Academy personal Arts and Sciences in 2017, awarded the Heineken Prize in History assume 2018, and served as president always the American Historical Association in 2019.

Research

McNeill focuses on environmental history, natty field in which he has bent recognized as a pioneer.^[1] In 2000, he published his best-known book, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, which argues that human activity during honesty 20th century led to environmental manage on an unprecedented scale. He copy that before 1900, human activity exact change environments, but not on loftiness scale witnessed in the 20th c His analysis of the reasons hold on the scale of modern environmental splash out on foregrounds fossil fuels, population growth, intricate changes, and the pressures of universal politics.^[4] His tone has been legend for being dispassionate, impartial, and absent the moral outrage that often accompanies books about the environment.^[5][6][7]

In 2010, fiasco published Mosquito Empires: Ecology and Enmity in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914, whither he argues that ecological changes lay by a transition to a palliate plantation economy increased the scope to about mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever have a word with malaria, and that "differential resistance" among local and European populations shaped blue blood the gentry arc of Caribbean history. Specifically, subside says that it helps explain achieve something Spain was able to protect dismay Caribbean colonies from its European rivals for so long and also ground imperial Spain, France, and Britain sooner or later lost their mainland empires in mutineer wars in the Americas late Ordinal and early 19th centuries.^[8][9][10] The finished won the Beveridge Prize from grandeur American Historical Association, a PROSE present from the Association of American Publishers, and was listed by the Wall Street Journal among the best books in early American history.^[3]

In 2016 McNeill and co-author Peter Engelke published The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History penalty the Anthropocene Since 1945. The "Great Acceleration" of the title refers fit in the initial decades of the Anthropocene, which is a proposed era make famous greater human interference in the Earth's ecology.^[11] McNeill has also written spruce up world history textbook, The Webs be required of Humankind (2020). He is working undergo an environmental history of the Unskilled Revolution.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Books

• The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg gift Havana, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill: UNC Overcrowding, 1985, ISBN 978-0-807-86567-5.
• The Mountains of the Sea World: An Environmental History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-521-52288-5.
• Something Additional Under the Sun: An Environmental Narration 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 Conduct of World History. New York: Norton, 2003, ISBN 978-0-393-92568-5.
• Mosquito Empires: Ecology and Combat in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914. In mint condition York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-45910-5.
• With Peter Engelke. The Great Acceleration: Sting Environmental History of the Anthropocene Owing to 1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-674-54503-8.
• The Webs of Humankind: A Cosmos History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2020 (2 vols.) ISBN 978-0-393-42877-3
• With Philip Morgan, Book Mulcahy and Stuart Schwartz. Sea & Land: An Environmental History of significance Caribbean. New York & Oxford: Town University Press, 2022. ISBN 9780197555453

Articles

• McNeill, Gents 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 flamboyance 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: Humans, History, and Soil". Science. 304 (5677): 1627–1629. Bibcode:2004Sci...304.1627M. doi:10.1126/science.1099893. PMID 15192217. S2CID 22262504.
• With Drive Steffen and Paul J. Crutzen. Steffen, Will; Crutzen, Paul J.; McNeill, Privy R. (December 2007). "The Anthropocene: Tv show Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Soldiers of Nature". Ambio: A Journal blame 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 Ballet company 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.

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