John Robert McNeill

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John Robert McNeill (born October 6, 1954 in Chicago ) is an American historian with a research focus on environmental history . He is Professor of History at Georgetown University in Washington, DC

Live and act

McNeill was born in 1954 to Elizabeth Darbishire and William Hardy McNeill , one of the most important researchers in world history , and grew up in his native Chicago . In 1975 he earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College , Pennsylvania . He then moved to Duke University , where he initially obtained his master’s degree in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1981. acquired. There he was also assistant professor from 1981 to 1983 , then also at Goucher College and from 1985 at Georgetown University. From 1990 to 1993 he was an associate professor. He has been a full professor at Georgetown University since 1993.

McNeill's research area is primarily environmental history, a topic on which, in addition to a large number of specialist articles, he has written and published several books. Two of his books ( Something New Under the Sun and The Human Web ) have been translated into different languages. B. in German, Italian, French, Dutch, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Hungarian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

In addition to environmental history, his teaching also includes world history and international history. In addition to his work at the university, McNeill is or was active on many historical research commissions and committees. Among other things, he was Vice President of the American Historical Association from 2012 to 2015 and President of the American Society for Environmental History from 2011 to 2013 . He is also a reviewer for a number of scientific journals and is a member of The Anthropocene Review ( SAGE Publications ).

Awards (selection)

McNeill has received numerous awards for his books. Among other things, he received the Albert J. Beveridge Award and the PROSE Award for Mosquito Empires . Something New Under the Sun received the 2001 World History Association Book Prize and was named one of the best scholarly books ever written by The Times newspaper . In 2017, McNeill was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2018 he was awarded the $ 200,000 AH Heineken Prize for History .

Works

Books

  • with Peter Engelke: The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 . Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-0-674-54503-8 .
  • Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914 . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-45910-5 .
  • with William Hardy McNeill: The Human Web: A Bird's-eye View of World History . New York: Norton, 2003, ISBN 978-0-393-92568-5 .
  • Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World . New York: Norton, 2000, ISBN 978-0-14-029509-2 .
    • German edition: Blue Planet. The history of the environment in the 20th century . Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2003, ISBN 3-593-37320-3 .
  • The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-521-52288-5 .
  • The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763 . Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-8078-6567-5 .

Editorships

  • with Alan Roe, (Ed.): Global Environmental History: An Introductory Reader . London: Routledge, 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-52053-9 .
  • with Mauldin Stewart, (Ed.): A Companion to Global Environmental History . Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, ISBN 978-1-118-97753-8 .
  • Corinna Unger, (Ed.): Environmental Histories of the Cold War . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-76244-1 .
  • with Jose Augusto Padua and Mahesh Rangarajan (eds.): Environmental History: As If Nature Existed . New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-806448-0 .
  • With Alf Hornborg and Joan Martinez-Alier (eds.): Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change . Lanham MD: AltaMira Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7591-1028-1 .
  • with Verena Winiwarter (Ed.): Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History . Isle of Harris: White Horse Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-874267-54-6 .
  • With Jerry Bentley, David Christian, William McNeill, Heidi Roupp, Judith Zinsser (Eds.): Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History . Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9743091-0-1 .
  • With Sheperd Krech and Carolyn Merchant (Eds.): Encyclopedia of World Environmental History , 3 editions New York: Routledge, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-93732-0 .
  • Environmental History in the Pacific World . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7546-0154-8 .
  • With Alan Karras (ed.): Atlantic American Societies from Columbus to Abolition . London: Routledge, 1992, ISBN 978-0-415-08073-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME McNeill, John Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian specializing in environmental history
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago