The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community

Blurb

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is a book by Canadian and University of Chicago historian William Hardy McNeill, first published in 1963 and enlarged with a retrospective preface in 1991. Its first edition won the U.S. National Book Award in History and Biography in 1964 and it was named one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th century by the Modern Library.