Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big HistoryUniversity of California Press, 2004 M02 23 - 642 páginas 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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... Australian megafauna 200 8.1 . Three eras of human history compared 208 8.2 . Human populations , 10,000 Bp to now 209 8.3 . Intensification in Australia : eel traps 226 8.4 . Intensification in Australia : stone houses 227 8.5 . Early ...
... Australian megafauna 200 8.1 . Three eras of human history compared 208 8.2 . Human populations , 10,000 Bp to now 209 8.3 . Intensification in Australia : eel traps 226 8.4 . Intensification in Australia : stone houses 227 8.5 . Early ...
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... Australia , along with other courses in Russian literature and European history . Influenced by the Annales school in France , his in- terests shifted to everyday aspects of Russian lives . Two books resulted , both dealing with what ...
... Australia , along with other courses in Russian literature and European history . Influenced by the Annales school in France , his in- terests shifted to everyday aspects of Russian lives . Two books resulted , both dealing with what ...
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... Australia in Aus- tralia ; at the University of California , Santa Cruz ; at Minnesota State University , Mankato ; and at Indiana University , Bloomington , in the United States ; at Victoria University in Canada ; and at Newcastle and ...
... Australia in Aus- tralia ; at the University of California , Santa Cruz ; at Minnesota State University , Mankato ; and at Indiana University , Bloomington , in the United States ; at Victoria University in Canada ; and at Newcastle and ...
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... Australians might call a modern " Dreaming " —a coherent account of how we were created and how we fit into the scheme of things . We found something else that most premodern societies have known : there is an astonishing power to any ...
... Australians might call a modern " Dreaming " —a coherent account of how we were created and how we fit into the scheme of things . We found something else that most premodern societies have known : there is an astonishing power to any ...
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... Australia ; in Am- sterdam ; and also in Santa Cruz in the United States . Fred Spier , from the University of Amsterdam , has gone one step further and written the first book on big history . In it , he offers an ambitious defense of ...
... Australia ; in Am- sterdam ; and also in Santa Cruz in the United States . Fred Spier , from the University of Amsterdam , has gone one step further and written the first book on big history . In it , he offers an ambitious defense of ...
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XII | 107 |
XIII | 137 |
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XXI | 333 |
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