TY - BOOK AU - McNeill,William Hardy AU - McNeill,John Robert TI - The Global condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community SN - 9780691174143 AV - CB69 .M335 2017 U1 - 909 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Civilization KW - History KW - Social history KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Emigration and immigration KW - history KW - Parasites KW - Emigrants and Immigrants KW - fast KW - Humanökologie KW - gnd KW - Zivilisation KW - Migration KW - Gesellschaft KW - 15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general KW - nbc KW - Lectures N1 - New Princeton paperback printing, with a new foreword by J.R. McNeill; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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. -- ER -