John Robert McNeill - Publications#

Authored (selection)

2020 The Webs of Humankind, 2 vols. (New York: Norton), 892pp

2016 The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), 275pp [with Peter Engelke]
Translations: Chinese (CITIC Press); Italian (Einaudi)
Entrance examination book, Political Science program, University of Helsinki

2010 Mosquito Empires: Ecology and Warfare in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 New York: Cambridge University Press), 371pp
Beveridge Prize, American Historical Association for the best book on the history of Canada, the United States, or Latin America
PROSE Award (American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) for best book in European and World History
Finalist, Turku Prize, for the best book in European environmental history
Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Georgetown University (2012)
Translations: Chinese [CITIC]; Korean [Bada]

2003 The Human Web (New York: Norton), 350pp [co-authored with W.H. McNeill]
Translations: Dutch [Het Spectrum]; Spanish [Critica]; Swedish [SNS Forlag]; Chinese [Peking University Press]; Finnish [Vastapaino]; Korean [Yeeson]; Japanese [Rakkousha]; Arabic [NCCAL Kuwait]; Thai [Matichon]

2000 Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-century World (New York: Norton [London: Penguin, 2001]), 421pp
New Yorker “Best Books We Read in 2020” list
Times (London) list of 10 best science books ever written [12 June 2008]
World History Association Book Prize
Forest History Society, Weyerhauser Book Prize
BP Natural World Book Prize (runner-up)
Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Georgetown University (2003)
translations: Italian [Einaudi; 2nd edition 2020], Spanish [Alianza], Swedish [SNS], German [Campus], Japanese [University of Nagoya Press], French [Champ Vallon and in 2013 Point], Hungarian [Ursus Libris], Chinese [CITIC, 2006, 2017; listed among 10 best books of 2017 by Shenzen Daily]

Edited (selection):

2018 Environmental Histories of World War I (New York: Cambridge University Press) [co-edited with R. Tucker, M. Schmid, T. Keller] Society for Military History Book Prize

2015 Cambridge World History. Vol. 7. Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750 – Present. Part 1: Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press). [co-edited with Ken Pomeranz]

2015 Cambridge World History. Vol. 7. Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750 – Present. Part 2: Shared Transformations? (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press). [co-edited with Ken Pomeranz]

2012 World Environmental History (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing) [co-edited with 6 colleagues]

Outstanding Journal Article:

“The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369 (13 March 2011), no. 1938: 842-67 [co-authored with Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Jacques Grinevald]