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289:, which argues that human activity during the 20th century led to environmental change on an unprecedented scale. He notes that before 1900, human activity did change environments, but not on the scale witnessed in the 20th century. His analysis of the reasons behind the scale of modern environmental change foregrounds fossil fuels, population growth, technological changes, and the pressures of international politics. His tone has been praised for being dispassionate, impartial, and lacking the moral outrage that often accompanies books about the environment. 470: 245:. From 2003 he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental History and International Affairs, until he was appointed a University Professor in 2006. He has written 7 books and edited or co-edited 17. He has held two 269:, as one of its three Vice Presidents (2012–15). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, awarded the Heineken Prize in History in 2018, and served as president of the 621:
With Philip Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy and Stuart Schwartz. Sea & Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 9780197555453
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ultimately lost their mainland empires in revolutionary wars in the Americas late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book won the
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Espinosa, Mariola (Winter 2011). "Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (review)".
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McNeill, J.R. "Peak Document and the Future of History," American Historical Review 125(2020), 1-18.
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McNeill, J. R. (December 2003). "Observations on the nature and culture of environmental history".
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McNeill, J. R.; Winiwarter, V. (11 June 2004). "Breaking the Sod: Humankind, History, and Soil".
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was able to protect its Caribbean colonies from its European rivals for so long and also why
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human activity during the 20th century led to environmental changes on an unprecedented scale
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Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
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The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World
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The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945
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2019 American Society for Environmental History, Distinguished Scholar Award
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The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763
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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914
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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914
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Steffen, Will; Crutzen, Paul J.; McNeill, John R. (December 2007).
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The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History
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2014 World History Association, Pioneer in World History Award
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Steffen, W.; Grinevald, J.; Crutzen, P.; McNeill, J. (2011).
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where he completed his MA in 1977 and his PhD in 1981.
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In 2016 McNeill and co-author Peter Engelke published
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016, 638:Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 1962: 1948: 1258: 1244: 263:American Society for Environmental History 756: 737:Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment 611:. New York: W.W. Norton, 2020 (2 vols.) 1106: 221:University of Chicago Laboratory Schools 199:McNeill was born on October 6, 1954, in 1141: 925:. Georgetown University. Archived from 876: 14: 3163: 1041: 986: 849: 847: 609:The Webs of Humankind: A World History 237:In 1985 he became a faculty member at 171:(born October 6, 1954) is an American 1943: 1239: 1035: 947: 913: 911: 909: 456:2021 elected to the Academia Europaea 439:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1165: 1109:Journal of Interdisciplinary History 464: 372: 3186:American people of Canadian descent 1265: 1142:Dillman, Jefferson (October 2012). 980: 844: 24: 3181:21st-century American male writers 906: 428:for European & World History, 423:Association of American Publishers 334:Association of American Publishers 194: 25: 3257: 3236:American male non-fiction writers 1220: 1081:J. R. McNeill (18 October 2010). 215:, with whom he published a book, 3176:21st-century American historians 663:10.1046/j.1468-2303.2003.00255.x 511:. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1985, 468: 1972:American Historical Association 1191: 1135: 923:Walsh School of Foreign Service 460: 326:American Historical Association 271:American Historical Association 267:American Historical Association 243:Walsh School of Foreign Service 1100: 1074: 1006: 941: 890:. 11 July 2016. Archived from 632:McNeill, John R. (Fall 2003). 13: 1: 3201:Georgetown University faculty 987:Teresi, Dick (25 June 2000). 837: 226:McNeill received his BA from 3246:Members of Academia Europaea 7: 1274:Biochemistry and Biophysics 1144:"Review of McNeill, J. R., 625: 397:Something New Under The Sun 387:Something New Under The Sun 276: 219:, in 2003. He attended the 207:. His father was the noted 175:, author, and professor at 156:Something New Under the Sun 10: 3262: 2532:Robert Livingston Schuyler 1152:H-Caribbean, H-Net Reviews 1042:Soluri, John (Fall 2002). 888:University of Chicago News 564:. New York: Norton, 2003, 543:. New York: Norton, 2000, 261:. He was president of the 257:, and a fellowship at the 3211:Swarthmore College alumni 2953: 2742: 2604:Bernadotte Everly Schmitt 2523: 2449:Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. 2312: 2214:William Archibald Dunning 2118:Charles Francis Adams Jr. 2109: 1978: 1824: 1765: 1658: 1551: 1438: 1273: 1048:Journal of Social History 989:"It's Been Hell on Earth" 380:World History Association 230:in 1975, then went on to 162: 151: 141: 131: 123: 118: 102: 97: 93: 82: 72: 39: 32: 3231:Historians from Illinois 3196:Environmental historians 2497:Kenneth Scott Latourette 2190:Frederick Jackson Turner 500: 336:, and was listed by the 2716:Lynn Townsend White Jr. 2465:William Linn Westermann 2441:James Westfall Thompson 2401:Charles Howard McIlwain 2198:William Milligan Sloane 2011:William Frederick Poole 699:10.1126/science.1099893 173:environmental historian 3191:Duke University alumni 3026:Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 2425:William Scott Ferguson 2302:Charles McLean Andrews 1571:BirdLife International 1552:Environmental Sciences 811:10.1098/rsta.2010.0327 445:Dr A.H. Heineken Prize 437:2017: elected to the 292:In 2010, he published 2911:Caroline Walker Bynum 2903:John Henry Coatsworth 2684:Robert Roswell Palmer 2489:Thomas J. Wertenbaker 2369:Herbert Eugene Bolton 2353:Evarts Boutell Greene 2345:James Harvey Robinson 2278:Charles Homer Haskins 2254:William Roscoe Thayer 2067:Richard Salter Storrs 2019:Charles Kendall Adams 1060:10.1353/jsh.2002.0109 367:Industrial Revolution 363:The Webs of Humankind 283:environmental history 259:Woodrow Wilson Center 251:Guggenheim fellowship 239:Georgetown University 209:University of Chicago 177:Georgetown University 146:Georgetown University 136:Environmental history 3216:Writers from Chicago 3018:Gabrielle M. Spiegel 2871:William Leuchtenburg 2652:Roy Franklin Nichols 2588:Walter Prescott Webb 2513:Samuel Eliot Morison 2337:James Henry Breasted 2286:Edward Potts Cheyney 2270:Jean Jules Jusserand 2222:Andrew C. McLaughlin 2182:Albert Bushnell Hart 2043:James Burrill Angell 1987:Andrew Dickson White 1199:"2010 Award Winners" 1121:10.1162/JINH_r_00140 1016:(July–August 2000). 591:With Peter Engelke. 482:adding missing items 183:, which argues that 2839:Natalie Zemon Davis 2548:Louis R. Gottschalk 2481:Sidney Bradshaw Fay 2473:Carlton J. H. Hayes 2393:Michael Rostovtzeff 2329:Henry Osborn Taylor 2321:Dana Carleton Munro 2246:Worthington C. Ford 2238:George Lincoln Burr 2174:George Burton Adams 2166:J. Franklin Jameson 2126:Alfred Thayer Mahan 954:Geographical Review 952:by J. R. McNeill". 803:2011RSPTA.369..842S 691:2004Sci...304.1627M 685:(5677): 1627–1629. 339:Wall Street Journal 281:McNeill focuses on 169:John Robert McNeill 98:Academic background 44:John Robert McNeill 3034:Barbara D. Metcalf 2986:Jonathan D. Spence 2978:James M. McPherson 2823:William H. McNeill 2775:John Hope Franklin 2767:William J. Bouwsma 2668:John King Fairbank 2612:Samuel Flagg Bemis 2417:Laurence M. Larson 2206:Theodore Roosevelt 2150:John Bach McMaster 2083:George Park Fisher 2035:William Wirt Henry 1970:Presidents of the 929:on 2 February 2018 651:History and Theory 634:"Theses on Radkau" 556:William H. McNeill 480:; you can help by 351:Great Acceleration 228:Swarthmore College 213:William H. McNeill 109:Swarthmore College 77:William H. McNeill 34:J. R. McNeill 27:American historian 3221:MacArthur Fellows 3158: 3157: 3010:Barbara Weinstein 2751:Richard B. Morris 2708:Thomas C. Cochran 2580:William L. Langer 2230:H. Morse Stephens 2158:Simeon E. Baldwin 2134:Henry Charles Lea 2091:James Ford Rhodes 1937: 1936: 1766:Cognitive Science 1014:Richard N. Cooper 857:(May–June 2003). 855:G. 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Index

J.R. McNeill
Chicago
Illinois
William H. McNeill
Heineken Prize
Alma mater
Swarthmore College
Duke University
Environmental history
Georgetown University
environmental historian
Georgetown University
human activity during the 20th century led to environmental changes on an unprecedented scale
fossil fuels
Chicago
Illinois
University of Chicago
William H. McNeill
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
Swarthmore College
Duke University
Georgetown University
Walsh School of Foreign Service
Fulbright Awards
Guggenheim fellowship
MacArthur Grant
Woodrow Wilson Center
American Society for Environmental History
American Historical Association
American Historical Association

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