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ISBN: | 0813172047 9780813172040 1283233010 9781283233019 9786613233011 6613233013 9780813137254 081313725X 0813123453 9780813123455
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index. English. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: McNeill, William Hardy, 1917- Pursuit of truth. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005 0813123453
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Publisher's no.: | EB00784896 Recorded Books
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