J. R. McNeill

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J. R. McNeill is affiliated with the following schools: Swarthmore College, Georgetown University, Goucher College, Duke University

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According to Wikipedia, John Robert McNeill is an American environmental historian, author, and professor at Georgetown University. He is best known for "pioneering the study of environmental history". In 2000 he published Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, which argues that human activity during the 20th century led to environmental changes on an unprecedented scale, primarily due to the energy system built around fossil fuels.

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The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature (2007) (2541)
The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives (2011) (1573)
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene (2016) (1502)
The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene (2016) (510)
When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal (2015) (485)
Something new under the sun : an environmental history of the twentieth century (2000) (335)
Something new under the sun : an environmental history of the twentieth-century world (2000) (287)
The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations (2017) (264)
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 (2016) (227)
Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History (2003) (217)
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change (2007) (211)
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History (1993) (163)
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (154)
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) (140)
Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates (2017) (139)
Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective (2017) (126)
Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch? (2015) (106)
Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene (2016) (105)
Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques (2017) (103)
Something New Under The Sun (2000) (95)
Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch (2020) (79)
The Anthropocene Review: Its significance, implications and the rationale for a new transdisciplinary journal (2014) (77)
The mountains of the Mediterranean world (1992) (76)
Colonization of the Americas, ‘Little Ice Age’ climate, and bomb-produced carbon: Their role in defining the Anthropocene (2015) (59)
Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico (2000) (54)
The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere (2016) (52)
Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (2003) (47)
Woods and Warfare in World History (2004) (47)
The State of the Field of Environmental History (2010) (43)
Mosquito Empires: List of Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes (2010) (43)
Group Report: Decadal-scale Interactions of Humans and the Environment (2006) (35)
A formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts: a response to W.F. Ruddiman’s ‘three flaws in defining a formal Anthropocene’ (2019) (32)
Historians, superhistory, and climate change (2016) (29)
The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines (2021) (29)
Environmental Histories of the Cold War: Index (2010) (28)
The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America. By H. Bruce Franklin. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007. 265 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, notes, and index. Cloth $25.00 (2009) (24)
Algo nuevo bajo el sol: historia medioambiental del mundo en el siglo XX (2003) (24)
Jürgen Osterhammel. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. Translated by Patrick Camiller. (2015) (23)
Population and the Natural Environment: Trends and Challenges (2006) (21)
Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1650–1825 (2004) (20)
The anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives. Philos Trans R Soc (2011) (18)
Environmental Histories of the Cold War (2013) (18)
: The English Atlantic, 1675-1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community (1988) (18)
A companion to global environmental history (2012) (17)
Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance (2018) (17)
The Environment, Environmentalism, and International Society in the Long 1970s (2010) (16)
Agriculture, Forests, and Ecological History: Brazil, 1500–1984 (1986) (15)
Ecology, epidemics and empires: environmental change and the geopolitics of tropical America, 1600-1825. (1999) (15)
Las redes humanas: una historia global del mundo (2004) (15)
The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. By Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell. Maps, abbreviations, bibliographical essays, bibliography, index and The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. By Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell. Maps, abbreviations,bibliographical ess (2001) (14)
The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch (2021) (14)
Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War: Weather Control, the United States, and India, 1966–1967 (2010) (14)
Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time. (1995) (13)
Naturaleza y cultura de la historia ambiental (2005) (12)
The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (review) (2006) (12)
What’s Next for Environmental History? (2005) (12)
Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763 (1985) (11)
Response to Autin and Holbrook on “Is the Anthropocene an issue of stratigraphy or pop culture?” (2012) (11)
The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals (2022) (11)
Diamond in the Rough: Is There a Genuine Environmental Threat to Security? A Review Essay (2005) (11)
Atlantic American Societies (1992) (11)
The world according to Jared Diamond. (2001) (10)
Underground metro systems (2019) (10)
Introductory Remarks: The Anthropocene and the Eighteenth Century (2016) (10)
L'invention scientifique de la Méditerranée: Égypte, Morée, Algérie. Edited by Marie-Noëlle Bourguet et al. Studies in History and the Social Sciences, volume 77. Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1998. Pp. 325. F 150. (2000) (9)
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: Bibliography (1992) (9)
Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism (2011) (9)
KIF IN THE RIF: A HISTORICAL AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON MARIJUANA, MARKETS, AND MANURE IN NORTHERN MOROCCO (1992) (9)
Introduction: The Big Picture (2010) (8)
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: Conclusion (1992) (8)
Of Rats and Men: A Synoptic Environmental History of the Island Pacific* (2022) (8)
Creating Cold War Climates: The Laboratories of American Globalism (2010) (8)
Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans (2022) (8)
Nature and History in Modern Italy (2011) (7)
Environmental History in the Pacific World (2022) (7)
:The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan, and the Malthusian Trap (2005) (6)
Pay Delegation in Next Steps Agencies: Some Initial Research Findings (1997) (5)
From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary (review) (2009) (5)
Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia (2015) (5)
Natives and Exotics (2011) (5)
A Companion to Global Environmental History: McNeill/A Companion to Global Environmental History (2012) (5)
Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to World War II (2012) (5)
The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event (2022) (5)
Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy (2013) (4)
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (2013) (4)
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of COVID-19 (2020) (4)
The Eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa’s Environmental History (2012) (4)
The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: B. L. Turner II, William C. Clark, Robert W. Kates, John F. Richards, Jessica T. Mathews, and William B. Meyer, Editors Reviewed by J. R. McNeil (1992) (4)
Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History (2012) (4)
Global environmental history : an introductory reader (2013) (4)
An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. By Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xviii, 357 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8122-3558-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-8122-1732-2.) (2001) (3)
Production, destruction, and connection, 1750-present (2015) (3)
Population politics since 1750 (2015) (3)
A new world of energy (2015) (3)
The Ecological Atlantic (2011) (3)
Nell Irvin Painter: The History of White People (2010) (3)
The Mediterranean: An Environmental History. By J. Donald Hughes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. Nature and Human Societies Series, edited by Mark R. Stoll. xx + 330 pages. Maps, index, bibliography. Cloth $85.00 (2007) (3)
Peak Document and the Future of History (2020) (3)
Theses on Radkau (2003) (3)
Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492-1715. By Paul Kelton. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii + 288 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $50.00 (2008) (3)
The New Ecology of Power: Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War Era (2010) (3)
The International System, Great Powers, and Environmental Change since 1900 (2009) (3)
Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and political power (2015) (2)
Forum: The Environmental History of Energy Transitions (2019) (2)
El sistema internacional y el cambio medioambiental en el siglo XX (2002) (2)
Yellow fever and geopolitics: environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1650-1900. (2002) (2)
The Historiography of Environmental History (2018) (2)
Gigantic Follies? Human Exploration and the Space Age in Long-term Historical Perspective (2008) (2)
The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from Reed Commission to the First Earth Day (2010) (2)
Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain. By Erik Swyngedouw (2017) (2)
East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century (2015) (2)
Thrift and Waste in American HistoryAn Ecological View (2011) (2)
Global industrialization: a multipolar perspective (2015) (2)
Changing Climates of History (2019) (2)
The biosphere and the Cold War (2010) (2)
Biological Exchanges in World History (2011) (2)
The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation. By John M. Hobson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv+376. $75.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). (2006) (2)
Envisioning an Ecological Atlantic, 1500 -1850 (2013) (2)
The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London (review) (1999) (2)
A Global Contamination Zone: Early Cold War Planning for Environmental Warfare (2010) (2)
Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years (2012) (2)
Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916 (2011) (1)
The United States in world history since the 1750s (2015) (1)
What Is Global History? By Sebastian Conrad.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. viii+300. $29.95. (2017) (1)
Continuities and change in sexual behaviour and attitudes since 1750 (2015) (1)
I. THE NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 1. OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND CULTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY1 (2003) (1)
President's Address: Toynbee as Environmental Historian (2014) (1)
Environmental History in the Pacific World: The Pacific World (Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900, Volume 2) (2002) (1)
Global History: Research and Teaching in the 21st Century (2005) (1)
Energy, population, and environmental change since 1750: entering the Anthropocene (2015) (1)
Epilogue: What Makes a City Resilient? (2019) (1)
Climate change: Comparing “green” and “polluting” nation-states (2023) (1)
Anacostia: The Death and Life of An American River. By John R. Wennersten. Baltimore: Chesapeake Book Company, 2008. xv + 323 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $20.00 (2009) (1)
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (review) (2011) (1)
Sport since 1750 (2015) (1)
Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945–1990. Edited by Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill (2019) (1)
Environment and History: A Methodological Revolution (2019) (1)
Music on the move, as object, as commodity (2015) (1)
Response to Merritts et al. (2023): The Anthropocene is complex. Defining it is not (2023) (1)
Ideas Matter: A Political History of the Twentieth-Century Environment (2000) (1)
Nature and the Iron Curtain. (2020) (1)
Harrison, Globalization, and the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease (2015) (1)
Edmund Burke III., Kenneth Pomeranz (Hrsg.): The Environment and World History. Berkeley 2009. - geschichte.transnational / Rezensionen / Bücher (2009) (1)
The Cambridge World History (2015) (1)
The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires (2016) (1)
Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World (19th–20th Centuries). Edited by Marco Armiero. Naples: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Istituto de Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo, 2006. 237 pp. Paper 25.00 (Euro) (2008) (1)
EPILOGUE:: Latin American Environmental History in Global Perspective (2018) (0)
Sea and Land (2022) (0)
The Changing Landscape since 1800 (1992) (0)
The Environment Makes History (2012) (0)
Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present. By James H.S. McGregor. (2015) (0)
World history, environmental history, comparative history: is the couple center/periphery useful as an analytical category? An interview with John Robert McNeill (2006) (0)
A short environmental history of Italy: variety and vulnerability (2018) (0)
The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World by Bruce M. S. Campbell (review) (2018) (0)
What should we remember : A global poll among environmental historians (2013) (0)
Homogeneity, Heterogeneity, Pigs and Pandas in Human History (2011) (0)
Ship of Death: A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World (2015) (0)
264 Flammable Cities : Fire , Urban Environment , and Culture in History (2009) (0)
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: The Deep History of Mediterranean Landscapes (1992) (0)
Christopher Sneddon. Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation. (2016) (0)
The Biology of Civilisation: Understanding Human Culture as a Force in Nature (2006) (0)
Michael Zeheter, Epidemics, Empire, and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), pp. Ix + 325, Maps, index. (2016) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Historical Perspectives on Global Ecology (2003) (0)
Zeheter Michael , Epidemics, Empire, and Environments: Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910 (2016) (0)
Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature. By Carl N. McDaniel and John M. Gowdy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiv + 225 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $45, paper $17.95 (2001) (0)
Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction (2015) (0)
Book review (2005) (0)
Mosquito Empires: Revolutionary Fevers, 1790–1898: Haiti, New Granada, and Cuba (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Introduction: Of Mines, Minerals, and North American Environmental History (2019) (0)
Paper Landscapes: Explorations in the Environmental History of Indonesia. Edited by Peter Boomgaard, Freek Colombijn, and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 1998. vi + 424 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, references, list of contributors, index (2001) (0)
Estudios sobre historia y ambiente en América. Vol. 2. Norteamérica, Sudamérica y el Pacífi co (2005) (0)
Political Economy and Mountain Landscapes (1992) (0)
Mosquito Empires: Bibliography (2010) (0)
Colonialism and Imperialism: Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (2003) (0)
Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa (review) (2005) (0)
France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?. By Philip P. Boucher. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi, 372 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8725-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8018-8726-0.) (2008) (0)
Population, Settlement, and Landscapes (1992) (0)
Mosquito Empires: Conclusion: Vector and Virus Vanquished, 1880–1914 (2010) (0)
Noble David Cook. Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650. (New Approaches to the Americas.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xiii, 248. Cloth $54.95, paper $15.95 (1999) (0)
Globalization, Anglo-American style (2015) (0)
Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba (2023) (0)
Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America (1994) (0)
Mosquito Empires: Lord Cornwallis vs. Anopheles quadrimaculatus , 1780–1781 (2010) (0)
O´scar Carpintero, El metabolismo de la economi´a espanola: Recursos naturales y huella ecolo´gica (2008) (0)
Redefining the Gaps: Connecting Neighbourhood Safety to National Security (2007) (0)
La historia ambiental de América Latina desde una perspectiva global (2019) (0)
Pacific Ecology and British Imperialism, 1770–1970 (2021) (0)
Latin America in world history (2015) (0)
J.H.S. McGregor, Athens (2015) (0)
Mosquito Empires: Deadly Fevers, Deadly Doctors (2010) (0)
Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth by Alison Bashford (review) (2015) (0)
An Environmental History of Britain since the Industrial Revolution. By B.W. Clapp (New York and London: Longman Group UK Ltd., 1994. xiii plus 268pp.) (1996) (0)
Mosquito Empires: Atlantic Empires and Caribbean Ecology (2010) (0)
Mosquito Empires: SETTING THE SCENE (2010) (0)
Where is Environmental History Going (2014) (0)
Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America (2006) (0)
Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta: An Ecological Story on Evolving Human-Environmental Relations Coping with Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. By Piet H. Nienhuis. New York: Springer, 2008. xviii + 640 pp. Index, maps, and illustrations. Cloth $239.00 (2009) (0)
Sostenibilidad ambiental y políticas de Estado: una visión histórica (2006) (0)
The Argument: Ecology, Economy, Shells, and Skeletons (1992) (0)
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (review) (2006) (0)
Robin A. Butlin. Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time. New York: Edward Arnold of Hodder and Stoughton; distributed by Routledge. 1993. Pp. xiii, 306. $25.00 (1995) (0)
In Memoriam: Richard Hugh Grove, 1955–2020 (2020) (0)
Aedes Rides Again: Mosquitoes and Flaviviruses in the Americas. (2016) (0)
Mosquito Empires: REVOLUTIONARY MOSQUITOES (2010) (0)
Mosquito Empires: Fevers Take Hold: From Recife to Kourou (2010) (0)
Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century. Kenneth J. Andrien , Rolena Adorno"To Make America": European Emigration in the Early Modern Period. Ida Altman , James Horn (1994) (0)
Samuel P. Hays.A History of Environmental Politics since 1945. ix + 256 pp., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. $19.95 (paper). (2003) (0)
Harriet Ritvo. The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 236. $26.00 (cloth). (2010) (0)
Matthew Gandy. The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination. (2018) (0)
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (review) (2003) (0)
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: Material Life in the Mountain Environment, 1700–1900 (1992) (0)
Mosquito Empires: The Argument (and Its Limits) in Brief (2010) (0)
ISLANDS IN THE RIM (1999) (0)
Mosquito Empires: IMPERIAL MOSQUITOES (2010) (0)
Consecuencias ambientales de las actividades militares de Estados Unidos desde 1789 (2002) (0)
Book Review:1936-46: Dyo epanastaseis kai antepanastaseis stin ellada Heinz Richter (1980) (0)
The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History. Edited by William V. Harris (2015) (0)
Mosquito Empires: Yellow Fever Rampant and British Ambition Repulsed, 1690–1780 (2010) (0)
Drugs in the modern era (2015) (0)
World, Transnational, and Miscellaneous/Le monde, les sujets transnationaux et divers (2015) (0)
The Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America. (1997) (0)
David Hurst Thomas, Native American Landscapes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Washington, D.C.: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 88, 1,136 pp., in 3 vols. (2009) (0)
Review: The Chinchaga Firestorm: When the Moon and Sun Turned Blue by Cordy Tymstra (2017) (0)
The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1760-1819. Edited by Jacques Barbier and Allan J. Kuethe. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984. Pp. vi, 232. Tables. Notes. Index. £30.) (1986) (0)
Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century (Book) (2002) (0)
Author Correction: Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch (2020) (0)
Book Review (2022) (0)
Bridges: World Environmental History: The First 100,000 Years (2007) (0)
Radkau on the Americas (2013) (0)
El vómito negro y la geopolítica: El medio ambiente, las epidemias y las batallas por el imperio en los trópicos americanos (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Maunder Minimum and Parker Maximum (2014) (0)
Book Review: Igler, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush, by J.R. McNeill (2015) (0)
Think in Public (2019) (0)
Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change (review) (1999) (0)
Mobilizing Nature: The Environmental History of War and Militarization in Modern France (2013) (0)
Transportation and communication, 1750 to the present (2015) (0)
The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics (review) (2003) (0)
National Geographic concise history of the world : an illustrated time line (2013) (0)

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