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John Robert McNeill

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American environmental historian, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, US

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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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2018Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History
2010Albert J. Beveridge Award
2010Toynbee Prize
2001Bentley Book Prize
1996Guggenheim Fellowship

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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". 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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