The Webs of Humankind, Ecological Teleconnections and the Anthropocene Debate

Prof. J. R. McNeill discusses his latest book 'The Webs of Humankind' with Dr. Yuan Chen, Postdoctoral Associate, Franklin Humanities Institute & Global Asia Initiative, Duke University.

J. R. McNeill is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of award-winning works in world and environmental history. These include The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History (co-authored with his father and world history pioneer, William H. McNeill), and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, both published by Norton. McNeill is a recent past president of the American Historical Association.