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The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (2003)

di John Robert McNeill, William Hardy McNeill

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World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities twelve thousand years ago, through the denser, more interactive metropolitan webs that surrounded ancient Sumer, Athens, and Timbuktu, to the electrified global web that today envelops virtually the entire world in a maelstrom of cooperation and competition, J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill show human webs to be a key component of world history and a revealing framework of analysis. Avoiding any determinism, environmental or cultural, the McNeills give us a synthesizing picture of the big patterns of world history in a rich, open-ended, concise account.… (altro)
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Very broad history of the world, emphasizing human connectedness across cultures. Well done although in a book like this there almost always seems like too much detail - even though you know every tidbit of detail could be (and probably is) a book of its own. ( )
  steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
Another entry into my Read Your Library series, continuing in the World History section of the library, this particular book takes a look at the spread of humanity throughout the course of history, picturing it like a series of webs that form and grow, eventually connecting or being overtaken by other, stronger webs.

Starting with the earliest forms of gathered humanity, the McNeills trace the growth and expansion of the human race from the early hunter-gatherer societies, to the shift to agrarian tribes, to the formation of the first major civilization in Mesopotamia. From there they explain the rise and fall of the first empires, the spread of technology, food, and illness across the globe, and the eventual combination of various webs to form a vast, interconnected web that covers most of the globe.

One thing I enjoyed about this book, as it is designed as a textbook, is that the information is presented in the barest factual form. The authors try to avoid their own bias and simply present the history as it happened, giving a full account of why things happened the way they did, never taking sides on a single issue.

I will say this fully factual presentation did make the reading a bit dry on occasion, but again, being a textbook that aspect was expected. I did not account for how much time that meant it would take me to get through it, however. ( )
  regularguy5mb | May 4, 2016 |
Did not read very far into this. It contains much the same information I have read in other books. Seems well presented, but no need to repeat.
  ritaer | Mar 7, 2015 |
Arvostettujen historioitsijoiden, isän ja pojan, kirjoittama selkeä yleiskatsaus maailmanhistoriaan on helppolukuinen teos. Se tarjoaa näkemyksen ja tulkinnan maailmanhistoriasta verkostojen ketjuna, jossa kaikki ihmiskunnan sivilisaatiot, kulttuurit ja yhteisöt ovat kietoutuneet toisiinsa. Teos valottaa järkeenkäyvästi miten verkostoitumisen prosessi on lähtenyt käyntiin ja millä nopeuksilla se on muokannut ihmiskuntaa eri puolilla maailmaa.
Tekijöiden tulkinta terävöittää nykyhistorian käsitystä, että yksikään yhteisö tai kulttuurialue ei ole täysin eristäytynyt ja kehittynyt omassa rauhassaan omana sivilisaationaan, vaan kaikki kulttuurit ovat jossain vaiheessa olleet ja ovat todennäköisesti yhteydessä verkostojen kautta. Verkostojen koko ja laajuus on vaihdellut. Tarve niiden käyttöön on myös vaihdellut myös ympäristöllisistäkin syistä. Kirjoittajat huomioivat myös nykytilannetta ja sivuavat nykyistä ympäristön tilaa ja sen vaikutusta verkostoihin loppupuheenvuoroissaan.

Teos sopii yleisestä historiasta tietämättömällekin helppolukuisuutensa ansiosta. Selkeä kappalejako ja rakenne on myös ansio. Heikkoutena teokselle voisi mainita toistavuuden, mutta se on vain pieni häiriötekijä. Ihmisyhteisöjen aatteet, kilpailun, talouden, kulttuurilliset vaikutteet ja vallan yhdistävä teos on yleissivistävä kokonaisuus, joka kaikkien tulisi lukea. ( )
  kirjastoseta | Feb 25, 2013 |
De wereldgeschiedenis in goed 350 bladzijden, er zijn er die het ook al gedaan hebben, maar dan toch niet zoals vader en zoon McNeill. Zij hebben een nieuw raster gelegd op de grillige, complexe evolutie van het menszijn, namelijk dat van de steeds complexer wordende en uitdeinende webben, eerst lokaal (boerendorpen), dan metropolitaans (steden), vervolgens beschavingen en tenslotte het kosmopolitische wereldweb (vanaf ca 1500). Dit raster is vooral verfrissend in de periode tussen ca 3.000 vC en 1500 nC, omdat het laat zien dat naast elkaar bestaande beschavingen of rijken toch in grote mate met elkaar interageerden en informatie doorgaven.
Maar zoals elke theorie zit er ook wat geforceerds aan: de McNeills lijken me iets te gretig in het gebruik van de omschrijving "het oude Wereldweb", waardoor ze suggereren dat er een bijna onophoudelijke, intense interactie bestond tussen het Romeinse rijk, de Parthen en China, wat me overdreven lijkt.
Tenslotte doet het voor ons westerlingen zeer vreemd aan dat het hele Romeinse Rijk amper 10 lijnen krijgt, terwijl vooral de chinese beschavingen in bijna elk hoofdstuk ruim aan bod komen. Kwestie van overcompensatie wellicht.
Conclusie: absoluut een verdienstelijk boek, dat een extra inzicht verschaft in de samenhang van de menselijke evolutie, maar dat af en toe toch wat onevenwichtig en geforceerd overkomt.
Grootste minpunt: de soms schabouwelijke vertaling! ( )
  bookomaniac | Apr 15, 2012 |
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McNeill, John Robertautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
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Groen, NicoTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Karlsson, IngemarTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities twelve thousand years ago, through the denser, more interactive metropolitan webs that surrounded ancient Sumer, Athens, and Timbuktu, to the electrified global web that today envelops virtually the entire world in a maelstrom of cooperation and competition, J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill show human webs to be a key component of world history and a revealing framework of analysis. Avoiding any determinism, environmental or cultural, the McNeills give us a synthesizing picture of the big patterns of world history in a rich, open-ended, concise account.

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