Description: The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.
Brief description: J. R. McNeill is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of award-winning works in world and environmental history. These include The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (co-authored with his father and world history pioneer, William H. McNeill) and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, both published by Norton. He has served as president of the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association.
Review Quotes: One of those rare books that's both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable.--Elizabeth Kolbert "The New Yorker"