The pursuit of truth : a historian's memoir /

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Author / Creator:McNeill, William Hardy, 1917-2016.
Imprint:Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 189 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143493
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ISBN:0813172047
9780813172040
1283233010
9781283233019
9786613233011
6613233013
9780813137254
081313725X
0813123453
9780813123455
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:William H. McNeill's seminal book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963) received the National Book Award in 1964 and was named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library. From his post at the University of Chicago, McNeill became the first contemporary North American historian to write world history in the light of anthropological, epidemiological, and technological ideas. A candid, intellectual memoir from one of the most famous and influential historians of our era, The Pursuit of Truth maps the life and career of a man who cha.
Other form:Print version: McNeill, William Hardy, 1917- Pursuit of truth. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005 0813123453
Publisher's no.:EB00784896 Recorded Books