Books

• John McNeill. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• John McNeill, W.H. McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird’s-eye View of World History. New York: Norton, 2003.
• John McNeill. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World. New York: Norton, 2000.
• John McNeill. The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• John McNeill. The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1985.

Articles in journals

• J.R. McNeill. "“Envisioning an Ecological Atlantic, 1500-1850,” ." Nova Acta Leopoldina 114 (2013): 21-33.
• J.R. McNeill. "“The State of the Field of Environmental History,” ." Quanqiushi pinglun 4 (2012): 3-49.
• J.R. McNeill. "“A Brief History of the Atmosphere,”." The Geographer (2011): 6-7.
• J.R. McNeill. "Henry Ford, Greg Grandin, and the Ideology of Rural Virtue." Il mestiero di storico 2 (2011): 14-18.
• J.R. McNeill. "Homogeneity, Heterogeneity, Pigs, and Pandas in World History." Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 2.1 (2011): 106-20.
• J.R. McNeill. "The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 369.1938 (2011): 842-67.
• J.R. McNeill. "The State of the Field of Environmental History." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 35 (2010): 345-74.
• J.R. McNeill. "La fin du monde: est-elle vraiment pour demain?." La revue internationale des libres et des idées 16.mars (2010): 42-49.
• J.R. McNeill, Donald Worster, Piero Bevilacqua, Guillermo Castro, R. Chakrabarti, K. du Pisani. "What Is Global Environmental History." Global Environment 2 (2009): 228-249.
• J.R. McNeill. "Environmental History in the Americas: Two Great Invasions." Nova Acta Leopoldina 98 (2009): 185-200.
• J.R. McNeill, Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen. "TheThree Stages of the Anthropocene." Island GeoScience 5.1 (2008): 2-5.
• J.R. McNeill. "Impatto ambientale: I primi 100mila anni." Oxygen 2 (2008): 16-27.
• J.R. McNeill. "Carpintero on Spanish Economic History." Global Environment 1 (2008): 216-223.
• J.R. McNeill. "Nengyuan diguo: huashi ruanliao yu 1580 nian yilai de diyuan zhengzhi." Xueshu yanjiu [Academic Research] 6 (2008): 108-114.
• J.R. McNeill. "World Environmental History: The First 100,000 Years." Historically Speaking 8.July (2007): 6-8.
• J.R. McNeill. "Il riscaldamento globale, Al Gore, e la veritá." Passato e Presente 72 (2007): 119-26.
• J.R. McNeill, Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen. "The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature." Ambio 36.8 (2007): 614-21.
• J.R. McNeill. "Population and the Natural Environment: Trends Challenges." Population and Development Review 32.suppl (2006): 183-202.
• John McNeill. "Modern Global Environmental History." IHDP Update (2005): 1-3.
• John McNeill. "Diamond in the Rough: Is There a Genuine Environmental Threat to Security? A Review Essay." International Security 30.1 (2005): 178-95.
• John McNeill. "“Drunks, Lampposts, and Environmental History,” ." Environmental History 10 (2005): 64-66.
• John McNeill. "Naturaleza y cultura de la historia ambiental." Nomadas 22 (2005): 12-25.
• John McNeill. "“A Historical Introduction to Global Environmental Change: The Role of Ideas since 1900 ." Cairo Papers in Social Science 26.1 (2005): 7-20.
• John McNeill. "Woods and Warfare in World History." Environmental History 9.3 (2004): 388-410.
• John McNeill and Verena Winiwarter. "Breaking the Sod: Humankind, History and Soil." Science 304 (2004): 1627-29.
• John McNeill. "Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1650-1825." OAH Magazine of History 18.3 (2004): 9-13.
• John McNeill. "Theses on Radkau." Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 33 (2003): 45-52.
• John McNeill. "Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History." History and Theory 42.4 (2003): 5-43.
• John McNeill. "Global History, World History, Big History." Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik 14 (2003): 104-106.
• John McNeill. "Historical Perspectives on Global Ecology." World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution 59 (2003): 263-274.
• John McNeill. "Environmental History Suggests a Path to Sustainability." Renewable Resources Journal 21.1 (2003): 11-15.
• John McNeill. "Europe’s Role in the Global History of Biological Exchange." Landscape Research 28 (2003): 33-39.
• John McNeill. "El sistema internacional y el cambio medioambientale en al siglo XX." Ayer (Madrid) 46 (2002): 19-42.
• John McNeill. "Consecuencias ambientales de las actividades militares de estados unidos desde 1789." Ecologia Politica (Barcelona) 23 (2002): 49-65.
• John McNeill. "Earth, Wind, Water and Fire: Resource Exploitation in the Twentieth Century." Global Dialogue 4.1 (2002): 11-19.
• John McNeill. "Yellow Fever and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1650-1900." History Now: Te Pae Tawhito O Te Wa 8.2 (2002): 10-16.
• John McNeill. "The World According to Jared Diamond." The History Teacher 34 (2001): 165-174.
• John McNeill. "Playing Dice With the Planet." Financial Times (2000).
• John McNeill. "Ideas Matter: A Political History of the Twentieth-Century Environment." Current History 99 (2000): 371-382.
• John McNeill. "Ecologia, Epidemias e Imperios: Mudancas no Ambiente e a Geopolitica da America Tropical, 1600-1825." Regiao Autonoma da Madeira, Historia e Meio-Ambiente o Impacto da Expansao Europeia (1999).
• John McNeill. "Epidemics, Environment and Empire: Yellow Fever and Geopolitics in the American Tropics, 1650-1825." Environment and History 5 (1999): 175-184.
• John McNeill. "Enlightenment Ideology and Spanish Ecology (1750-1900)." Human Dimensions Quarterly 1.3 (1995): 10-12.
• John McNeill. "Of Rats and Men: A Synoptic Environmental History of the Island Pacific." Journal of World History 5 (1994): 299-349.
• John McNeill. "Kif in the Rif: An Historical and Ecological Perspective on Marijuana, Markets, and Manure in Northern Morocco." Mountain Research and Development 12.4 (1992): 389-392.
• John McNeill. "The Earth As Transformed by Human Action: A Review Essay." Environment 34 (1992): 25-29.
• John McNeill. "Deforestation and Peasant Exodus in the Epirot Pindus." Scientific Annals of the University of Thesssaloniki Department of Forestry and Natural Environment LB.20 (1989): 489-495.
• John McNeill. "Agriculture, Forests, and Ecological History: Brazil, 1500-1983." Environmental Review 10 (1986): 122-133.
• John McNeill. "Yellow Fever in Havana in the Early Nineteenth Century." Journal of the Florida Medical Association 71 (1984): 456-462.
• John McNeill. "Climbing Kilimanjaro." Swarthmore Alumni Bulletin 3 (1977).

Articles in books

• J.R. McNeill. "“Une Histoire environnementale du monde dan l’ère des énergies fossiles (1800-2012).” ." Une Protection de l’environnment à la française? . Ed. Charles-François Mathis and Jean-François Mouhot. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2013: 26-42
• J.R. McNeill. "“Problèmes et perspectives de l’histoire globale de l’environnement depuis 1990.”." Le tournant global des sciences sociales. Ed. Alain Caillé and Stéphane Dufoix. Paris: La Découverte, 2013: 77-100
• J.R. McNeill. "“The Eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa’s Environmental History.”." Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa . Ed. Alan Mikhail. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012: 27-50
• J.R. McNeill. "“Future Research Needs in Environmental History.” ." The Future of Environmental History . Ed. Kim Coulter and Christoph Mauch. Munich: Carson Center, 2011: 13-15
• J.R. McNeill and George Vrtis. "“Thrift and Waste in American History: An Ecological View.” ." Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present. Ed. Joshua Yates and James Davison Hunter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011: 508-35
• J.R. McNeill. "Environmental History." A Concise Companion to History. Ed. Ulinka Rublack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011: 299-315
• J.R. McNeill. "Biological Exchanges in World History." The Oxford Handbook of World History. Ed. J. Bentley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011: 325-42
• J.R. McNeill. "The Ecological Atlantic." The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c. 1450-c.1850 . Ed. P. Morgan and N. Canny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011: 289-304
• J.R. McNeill and George Vrtis. "Thrift and Waste in American History: An Ecological View." Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present . Ed. J. Yates and J.D. Hunter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011: 508-35
• J.R. McNeill. "Plithismos kai perivallon sti Voreia Pindo, apo to 18o eos ton 20o aiona.” [Population and Environment in the Northern Pindos, 18th to 20th centuries." Perivallontiki istoria: meletes yia tin archaia kai ti synchroni Elladha [Environmental History: Studies from Ancient and Modern Greece]. Ed. Chloe Vassilopoulou and Georgia Liarakou. Athens: Elliniki Grammata, 2010: 95-126
• J.R. McNeill. "The Historiography of Environmental History." The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Ed. D. Woolf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010: vol 5., 159-76
• J.R. McNeill. "The Environment, Environmentalism, and International Society in the Long 1970s." The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective. Ed. Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010: 263-78
• J.R. McNeill. "The Biosphere and the Cold War." The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Ed. Melvyn Leffler and Arne Westad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010: vol.3, 422-44
• J.R. McNeill. "The First Hundred Thousand Years." Turning Points of Environmental History. Ed. Frank Uekotter. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010: 13-28
• J.R. McNeill. "“Sustainable Survival"." Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability and the Aftermath of Empire. Ed. Norman Yoffee and Patricia McAnany. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009: 355-66
• J.R. McNeill, David Painter. "The Global Environmental Footprint of the U.S. Military, 1789-2003." War and the Environment. Ed. Charles Closmann. College Station, TX: Texas A & M Press, 2009: 10-31
• J.R. McNeill. "The International System, Great Powers, and Environmental Change since 1900." Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts . Ed. Hans-Gunter Brauch. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2009: 42-52
• J.R. McNeill. "Introduction: Environmental and Economic Management." Colonial Crucible : Empire in the Making of the Modern American State . Ed. Alfred McCoy and Francisco Scarano. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009: 475-478
• J.R. McNeill. "Can History Help with Global Warming?." Climatic cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change . Ed. Kurt Campbell. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008: 26-48
• J.R. McNeill. "Global Environmental History in the Age of Fossil Fuels (1800-2007)." The Environmental Histories of Europe and Japan. Ed. K. Mizoguchi. Kobe: Nagoya University Press, 2008: 1-11
• J.R. McNeill. "O prirode i kulture ekologicheskoi istorii." Sovremennye napravleniya v istoricheskoi nauke . Ed. Yulia Laius. St. Petersburg: Aleteiya, 2008: 23-83
• J.R. McNeill. "El vómito negro y la geopolítica: El medio ambiente, las epidemias, y las batallas por el imperio en los trópicos americanos." Naturaleza en declive . Ed. Reinaldo Funes Monzote. Valencia (Spain): Biblioteca Historia Social, 2008: 99-124
• J.R. McNeill. "Gigantic Follies? Human Exploration and the Space Age in Long-term Historical Perspective." Remembering the Space Age. Ed. Steven J. Dick. Washington DC: NASA Publications, 2008: 3-16
• J.R. McNeill. "Global Environmental History since 1900." Storia e ambiente. Ed. Angelo Varni. Bologna: Bolonia University Press, 2007: 17-26
• J.R. McNeill. "Constraints On War." Major Problems in Atlantic History. Ed. Alison Games and Adam Rothman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007: 315-21
• J.R. McNeill. "Revolutionary Mosquitoes of the Atlantic World: Malaria and Independence." Natures Past: The Enviropnment and Human History. Ed. Paolo Squatriti. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007: 145-71
• J.R. McNeill. "Yellow Jack and Geopolitics, 1640-1830." Rethinking Environmental History. Ed. Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, Joan Martinez-Alier. Lanham MD: AltaMira Press, 2007: 199-220
• J.R. McNeill. "The Green Revolution." Environmental Issues in India. Ed. Mahesh Rangarajan. New Delhi: Pearson-Longman, 2007: 184-94
• J.R. McNeill. "Yellow Fever, Empire and Revolution: The Political Impacts of Infectious Disease in the Caribbean Region, 1640-1900." When Disease Makes History . Ed. Pekka Hämäläinen . Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2006: 81-101
• J.R. McNeill. "Sostenibilidad ambiental y políticas de Estado: una visión histórica." Las políticas de la Tierra . Ed. Alfonso Guerra. Madrid: Editorial Sistema, 2006: 175-84
• J.R. McNeill and Verena Winiwarter. "Soils, Soil Knowledge and Environmental History." Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History. Ed. J.R. McNeill and Verena Winiwarter. Isle of Harris: White Horse Press, 2006: 1-6
• J.R. McNeill. "Historical Perspectives on Global Ecology." Global Survival: The Challenge and Its Implications. Ed. E. Lazlo and P. Seidel. New York: Select Books, 2006: 189-206
• J.R. McNeill. "Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggle for Empire in the American Tropics, 1640-1900." City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History. Ed. J. Diefendorf and K. Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University Pittsburgh Press, 2005: 193-206
• John McNeill. "The Great Powers and the Global Environment in the Twentieth Century,”." Allies As Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World System . Ed. Faruk Tabak. Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers, 2005: 187-206
• John McNeill. "Foreword." The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consuquences of 1492. Ed. Alfred Crosby. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
• John McNeill. "Resource Exploitation and Over-exploitation: A Look at the Twentieth Century." Exploitation and Overexploitation in Societies Past and Present. Ed. Brigitta Benzing and Bernd Hermann. Munster: International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and Lit Verlag, 2003: 51-62
• John McNeill. "Environmental Change and Security." Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century. Ed. Michael Brown. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2003: 178-197
• John McNeill. "Environment and History in South America and South Africa." South Africa’s Environmental History: Cases and Comparisons. Ed. S. Dovers, R. Edgecombe, Bill Guest. Athens, OH and Cape Town: Ohio Univ. Press and David Philip, 2002: 240-249
• John McNeill. "The Global Environment in the American Century." The American Century? In Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. Roberto Rabel. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002: 41-56
• John McNeill. "Introduction." Environmental History in the Pacific World. Ed. John McNeill. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001: xiii-xxix
• John McNeill. "Biological Exchange and Biological Invasion in World History." Making Sense of Global History. Ed. Solvi Sogner. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2001: 106-119
• John McNeill. "Tragedies of Privatization: Land, Liberty, and Environmental Change in Spain and Italy, 1800-1910." Land, Property, and the Environment. Ed. J.F. Richards. Oakland: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 2001: 222-234
• John McNeill. "Ecology and Strategy in the Mediterranean: Points of Intersection." Naval Strategy and Policy in the Mediterranean: Past, Present, and Future. Ed. John B. Hattendorf. London: Frank Cass, 2000: 374-391
• John McNeill. "Islands in the Rim: Ecology and History In and Around the Pacific." Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim History since the Sixteenth Century. Ed. D.O. Flynn, Lionel Frost, and A.J.H. Latham. London: Routledge, 1999: 70-84
• John McNeill. "Chinese Environmental History in World Perspective." Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. Ed. Mark Elvin, Ts’ui-jung Liu. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 31-52
• John McNeill. "From Magellan to MITI: Pacific Rim Economies and Pacific Island Ecologies since 1521." Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim. Ed. Sally Miller, A.J.H. Latham, Dennis O. Flynn. London: Routledge, 1998: 72-93
• John McNeill. "Pacific Ecology and British Imperialism,1770-1970." European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Colonial Policy in the Pacific Islands and Indigenous Response. Ed. Hermann Hiery, John MacKenzie. London: I.B. Tauris and the German Historical Institute, 1997: 123-138
• John McNeill. "American Ports and Imperial Trade." The Atlantic Staple. II. The Economics of Trade. Ed. Susan Socolow. Aldershot: Variorum, 1996: 665-696
• John McNeill. "The Reserve Army of the Unmarried in World Economic History: Flexible Fertility Regimes and the Wealth of Nations." Rich Nations, Poor Nations: The Long-Run Perspective. Ed. Derek Aldcroft and Ross Catterall. London: Edgar Elgar, 1996: 23-38
• John McNeill. "Navy, France." Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia. Ed. A. Gallay. New York: Garland, 1996: 475-477
• John McNeill. "Navy, Spain (1700-1763)." Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763. Ed. A. Gallay. New York: Garland, 1996: 389-391
• John McNeill. "Louisbourg." Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia. Ed. A. Gallay. New York: Garland , 1996: 389-391
• John McNeill. "Chinese Environmental History in World Perspective." Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. Ed. Mark Elvin, Liu Ts’ui-jung. Taipei: Academia Sinica Institute of Economics, 1995: 39-66
• John McNeill. "Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana." The Invention of Canada: Readings in Pre-Confederation History. Ed. Chad Gaffield. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman, 1994: 159-200
• John McNeill. "Toward a Typology and Regionalization of Land Cover and Land Use Change: Report of Working Group B." Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective. Ed. B.L. Turner, W. Meyer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994: 55-71
• John McNeill. "Environmentalism." Encyclopedia of Social History. Ed. Peter Stearns. New York: Garland, 1994.
• John McNeill. "The End of the Atlantic World, 1770-1888." Atlantic American Societies from Columbus to Abolition. Ed. Alan Karras, J.R. McNeill. London: Routledge, 1992: 245-268
• John McNeill. "Future History. Round I: High Climatic Change (Europe)." The Challenge of Sustainable Development in a Greenhouse World: Some Visions of the Future. Ed. Jill Jager. Stockholm: Stockholm Environmental Institute, 1991: 27-29
• John McNeill. "Future History. Round II: Low Climatic Change." The Challenge of Sustainable Development in a Greenhouse World: Some Visions of the Future. Ed. Jill Jager. Stockholm: Stockholm Environmental Institute, 1991: 46-62
• John McNeill. "Deforestation in the Araucaria Zone of Southern Brazil, 1900-1983." World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century. Ed. J.F. Richards, R.P. Tucker. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988: 15-32
• John McNeill. "Twentieth-Century Latin America." Unbound But Still Unfree. Ed. Stephen Fortune. Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 1987: 201-216
• John McNeill. "The Ecological Basis of Warfare in the Caribbean, 1700-1804." Adapting to Conditions: War and Society in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. M. Ultee. University: University of Alabama Press, 1986: 26-42

Edited books

• J.R. McNeill and Alan Roe, ed. Global Environmental History: An Introductory Reader . London: Routledge, 2012.
• J.R. McNeill and Erin Mauldin Stewart, ed. A Companion to Global Environmental History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• J.R. McNeill and Corinna Unger, ed. Environmental Histories of the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• J.R. McNeill, Jose Augusto Padua, Mahesh Rangarajan, ed. Environmental History As If Nature Existed. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, Joan Martinez-Alier, ed. Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change. Lanham MD: AltaMira Press, 2007.
• John McNeill and Verena Winiwarter, ed. Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History. Isle of Harris: White Horse Press, 2006.
• John McNeill, Jerry Bentley, David Christian, William McNeill, Heidi Roupp, Judith Zinsser, ed. Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005.
• Sheperd Krech, J.R. McNeill, Carolyn Merchant, ed. Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, 3 vols.. New York: Routledge, 2003.
• John McNeill, ed. Environmental History in the Pacific World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
• John McNeill, Alan Karras, ed. Atlantic American Societies from Columbus to Abolition. London: Routledge, 1992.

Other

• Encyclopedia Brittanica On-Line.
• Encarta On-Line.
• Encyclopedia Brittanica On-line .
• Encarta On-Line.
• Encarta On-Line.
• Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line.
• Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line.
• ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY (New York: Scribner’s).
• Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia .
• Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia .
• Colonial Wars Of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia .
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History.
• Encyclopedia of Social History.