Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART I The Great Frontier: FREEDOM AND HIERARCHY IN MODERN TIMES; Acknowledgments; Lecture I: To 1750; Lecture II: From 1750; PART II The Human Condition: AN ECOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL VIEW; Acknowledgments; Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Urban Transmutation; Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Commercial Transmutation; PART III Control and Catastrophe in Human Affairs; Notes; Index
Summary
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
