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An Introduction To Big History, With A New Preface
University of California Press
October 2011
On Sale: October 1, 2011
672 pages ISBN: 0520271440 EAN: 9780520271449 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a
perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the
present day, Maps of Time is world history on an
unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David
Christian views the interaction of the natural world with
the more recent arrivals in flora and fauna, including human
beings.
Cosmology, geology, archeology, and
population and environmental studies—all figure in David
Christian's account, which is an ambitious overview of the
emerging field of "Big History." Maps of Time opens
with the origins of the universe, the stars and the
galaxies, the sun and the solar system, including the earth,
and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet
before human habitation. It surveys the development of human
society from the Paleolithic era through the transition to
agriculture, the emergence of cities and states, and the
birth of the modern, industrial period right up to
intimations of possible futures. Sweeping in scope, finely
focused in its minute detail, this riveting account of the
known world, from the inception of space-time to the
prospects of global warming, lays the groundwork for world
history—and Big History—true as never before to its name.
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