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).
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.
發表於2024-05-02
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大曆史是一切人類的首個起源故事。如果大曆史就是一個起源故事,那麼它也是一切人類的首個起源故事。由於它齣現在一個高度密集化的相互聯係的世界,它是首個為全體人類為瞭自己所創造的起源故事。傳統的起源故事試圖從特定的社群或者地區或者文化傳統中概括齣某種知識,而這是...
評分1.人類能夠超越其他地球生物成為地球主宰,是因為人類擁有“符號語言”,通過語言、文字積纍知識,形成共有的集體知識。 2.能夠積纍、迭代集體知識是全人類不斷進化的最大優勢。 3.知識不斷積纍、創新不斷加快,人口就會增長。因為有足夠能力承載大量人口瞭。但一旦人口增長過...
評分隻能看看手邊有什麼東西能寫進來的…… David Armitage, 'What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée,' History of European Ideas 38.4 (2012): 493-507. Connie Barlow, Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science (New York 1997). Cynthia S. Br...
評分試圖把自然科學和社會科學結閤起來來解釋從宇宙産生以來130億年的曆史,係統體係的超規模龐大,涉及學科內容的廣泛,讓人看書時很難讀下去,更彆說讀懂。這本書的作者,“大曆史”奠基人剋裏斯蒂安在教授這門課程時需要一節課上好幾個學科教授一起共同完成課堂教學,可想而知,...
評分試圖把自然科學和社會科學結閤起來來解釋從宇宙産生以來130億年的曆史,係統體係的超規模龐大,涉及學科內容的廣泛,讓人看書時很難讀下去,更彆說讀懂。這本書的作者,“大曆史”奠基人剋裏斯蒂安在教授這門課程時需要一節課上好幾個學科教授一起共同完成課堂教學,可想而知,...
圖書標籤: 曆史 全球史 BigHistory 大曆史導論 DavidChristian 曆史學 history 美國
我真是在憑良心打分,雖然這本書看得我血管都快爆瞭。
評分召喚史前史與人類史的互通,將人類的曆史置於生物圈甚至整個宇宙的曆史之中,在當下學術和知識日益碎片化的情況下,試圖打破學科界限,提供統閤性的新知識,講述瞭從宇宙大爆炸至今,宇宙、地球、生命、人類的“大曆史”。在人類愈發自我中心主義化的今天,將眼光放大到絕地天通的曆史境界,或許可以避免井底觀天。It's ebook is available in wechat public page: iAudioBook
評分召喚史前史與人類史的互通,將人類的曆史置於生物圈甚至整個宇宙的曆史之中,在當下學術和知識日益碎片化的情況下,試圖打破學科界限,提供統閤性的新知識,講述瞭從宇宙大爆炸至今,宇宙、地球、生命、人類的“大曆史”。在人類愈發自我中心主義化的今天,將眼光放大到絕地天通的曆史境界,或許可以避免井底觀天。It's ebook is available in wechat public page: iAudioBook
評分召喚史前史與人類史的互通,將人類的曆史置於生物圈甚至整個宇宙的曆史之中,在當下學術和知識日益碎片化的情況下,試圖打破學科界限,提供統閤性的新知識,講述瞭從宇宙大爆炸至今,宇宙、地球、生命、人類的“大曆史”。在人類愈發自我中心主義化的今天,將眼光放大到絕地天通的曆史境界,或許可以避免井底觀天。It's ebook is available in wechat public page: iAudioBook
評分我真是在憑良心打分,雖然這本書看得我血管都快爆瞭。
Maps of Time 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載