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Lädt ... Mythistory and Other Essaysvon William H. McNeill
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. How wonderful it read what I consider to be the most impressive historian of the second half of the twentieth century, even though these are only short essays and they are already 40 years old. Because William McNeill (1917-2016) can rightly be called the real father of world history. Agreed, some passages may be a bit dated, but many of McNeill's findings remain valid. I especially recommend essay 3, in which he clarifies his approach: “my approach, influenced by the anthropologists, assumed that borrowing was the normal human reaction to an encounter with strangers possessing superior skills (…) Such encounters thus appeared to me to be the principal motor of social change within civilized and simpler societies alike. A world history should, accordingly, focus special attention on modes of transport and the evidences of contact between different and divergent forms of society that such transport allowed.” Interaction, confrontation and entanglement have become basic elements in the global approach to history, mainly thanks to McNeill. More on that in my History account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4632208381 ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Myths are based on faith more than on fact, yet myths underlie all human societies; they are our substitute for instinct. Using this approach, University of Chicago historian McNeill (Plagues and People, etc.) here looks at "living myth systems," such as liberalism and Marxism, as well as dead myths, such as Nazism. He warns that the electoral process, and the "democratic myths" behind it, are in danger of being made irrelevant by powerful private-interest groups. In these essays and lectures, McNeill maintains that borrowings between ancient civilizations shaped the modern world even more than he had previously believed. He admires Toynbee for daring to link history to such matters as the destiny of humankind. Cameos of three famous historians whom McNeill knew personallyA. J. Toynbee, Carl Becker and Fernand Braudelpoint up how each man expanded the horizons of our meaningful past. McNeill urges a global approach over a nationalistic one as the only sensible way to study or teach history. -- Amazon.com. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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