Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History - Couverture souple

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Christian, David

 
9780520271449: Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520271440 ISBN 13 : 9780520271449
Editeur : University of California Press, 2011

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520271440
ISBN 13 
9780520271449
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
672
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780520235007: Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520235002 ISBN 13 :  9780520235007
Editeur : University of California Press, 2004
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