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William Hardy McNeill (1917), professor emeritus of history at the University of Chicago where he has taught since 1947, is the author of established books on Western civilization. Among them are Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, A World History or with J. R. McNeill, Human Networks: A Global History of the World.