Person

William H McNeill

Historian of plagues, populations, and macro-social cohesion—how disease and mobility reshape collective life.

Why this matters

McNeill offers long-horizon context for disruption, trust, and how societies absorb shocks across generations.

Works

book

Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History

McNeill, William H. *Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Related books

Book

Living in Sediment

How Structures Outlive Their Reasons

We live inside inherited systems built for constraints that no longer exist. When structures survive after their reasons disappear, meaning drifts—and the danger is forgetting the sediment is sediment.