Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History: 2 - Brossura

Christian, David

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ISBN 10: 0520271440 ISBN 13: 9780520271449

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 2011

Riassunto

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 studiesall 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 historyand Big Historytrue as never before to its name.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Christian is Professor in the Department of History at San Diego State University. He is the author of Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (1990), Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the Challenge of Modernity (1997), and A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Volume 1: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire (1998).

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"You've all seen the poster of the milky way galaxy with an arrow to a point about halfway out from the center and the caption, You are here. This book is like that only more so. It locates the human experience in the entirety of space-time."Alfred Crosby, author of Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520271440
• ISBN 13: 9780520271449
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 672
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile