Mythistory and Other Essays - William Hardy McNeill.
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William H. McNeill (1917-2016) was the Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and the College at the University of Chicago. In 2009 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his work as a teacher, scholar, and author. His many books include The Pursuit of Power, The Rise of the West, and Mythistory and Other Essays, all published by the.
MYTHISTORY AND OTHER ESSAYS. By William H. McNeill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 226. This collection consists of ten essays, the first of which McNeill delivered to the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in December 1985 as his presidential ad-dress. The second essay, an original piece, continues the themes of myth, historical truth, and the historian.
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William McNeill - 2013 - Research in Phenomenology 43 (2):177-192. The essay presents a series of explorations of Nietzsche’s conception of life as will to power, relying extensively on fragments from Nietzsche’s later notebooks, but also commenting on key selections from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morality.
His many books include Plagues and Peoples, Venice: The Hinge of Europe 1081-1797, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, which received the National Book Award, Mythistory and Other Essays, History of Western Civilization: A Handbook, and The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000.
William H. McNeill was born in Vancouver, Canada, the son of a Presbyterian minister and historian of Christianity and his wife. The family moved to Chicago when he was 10. He graduated from the University of Chicago, where he was editor of the student newspaper, in 1938, and earned a master’s degree with a thesis on Thucydides and Herodotus.