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John Robert McNeill
American environmental historian, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, US · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1954 · age 72
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".
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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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Kenneth PomeranzBoth received Bentley Book PrizeGeoffrey ParkerBoth received Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History
Rosamond McKitterickBoth received Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History
Mike DavisBoth received Bentley Book Prize
Lorraine DastonBoth received Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History
Heiko ObermanBoth received Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History