The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community

William H. McNeill with Béla Petheö

828 pages paperback 1960

5 editions

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially ...

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