J.R. McNeill, William H. McNeill, The human web. A bird’s eye on world history, New York, Norton, 2003

Indice:

Preface
Introduction: Webs and history
I. The human apprenticeship
II. Shifting to food production – 11,000-3,000 years ago
III. Webs and civilization in the Old World – 3500 BCE-200 CE
IV. The growth of webs in the Old World and America – 200-1000
CE
V. Thickening Webs – 1000-1500
VI. Spinning the worldwide web - 450-1800
VII. Breaking old chains, tightening the new web – 1750-1914
VIII. Strains on the web: the world since 1890
IX. Big pictures and long prospects

Interventi:

D. Northrup, Globalization and the great convergence: rethinking world history in the long term, «Journal of World History», 3/2005

D. Smail, In the grip of sacred history, «American historical review», 5/2005