The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community

Synopsis

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. -- Part I: The Great Frontier: Freedom And Hierarchy In Modern Times -- Acknowledgments, P.3 -- Lecture I: To 1750, P.5 -- Lecture Ii: From 1750, P.33 -- Part Ii: The Human Condition: An Ecological And Historical View -- Acknowledgments, P67 -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, And The Urban Transmutation, P.69 -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, And The Commercial Transmutation, P.100 -- Part Iii: Control And Catastrophe In Human Affairs, P.133. William H. Mcneill ; With A New Foreword By J.r. Mcneill. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.