The Webs of Humankind: A World History Volume 2

by J.R. McNeill

A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction that stitched together regions and over time, the globe.

A leader in the field presents a cohesive narrative of world history that effectively addresses the main challenge of the introductory how to navigate beginning students through the vast detail of the subject. McNeill uses connective webs—along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled—to organize details and keep the big picture in view. Students emerge with clear takeaways and a strong sense of the basic dynamics of world history. John McNeill’s The Webs of Humankind offers a clear and effective teaching tool for the world history survey course. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.

1472 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 11, 2020

Reviews

[Danny]

Pretty standard history textbook that focuses mostly on the processes of globalization.

[Nick]

Not bad, read it for a university class and gave a good amount of information.

[Grant]

This second edition maintains the excellent writing and comprehensible overall themes of the first edition. The restructured final chapters make recent history more comprehensible as well as bringing events up to 2023. Highly recommended.

[Grant]

McNeill distills a lifetime of thinking about world history into a highly readable textbook.