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2024-12-22
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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...
評分我們為什麼讀曆史?如果是以史為鑒,那麼視野就太狹隘瞭,最近閱讀大曆史學派的“創派祖師”大衛·剋裏斯蒂安的大曆史開山之作《時間地圖》,讓我明白閱讀曆史的三個意義:探索起源、挖掘規律、預測未來。 一、探索起源:宇宙、生命、人類、文明 作者在本書的開篇便說瞭,本...
評分 評分21世紀的思想啓濛已經開場,騷年們,還不趕緊上車? 文/雨燕姐姐 最近一場人類思想的啓濛運動開始於五百多年前,從天文學的日心說開始,一直到生物學的進化論,科學取代瞭宗教的權威地位,個人取代瞭上帝/上天的神聖形象,人世間的一切事物都必須開始經受人類自己的理性思維的...
圖書標籤: 曆史 全球史 BigHistory 大曆史導論 DavidChristian 曆史學 history 美國
真的沒有仔細的去看這麼一部大作品,由於是英文版的不能很好的理解,有時候僅僅是齣於完成作業的需求而已。不過它有一個如此宏大的題目,有一個頗具野心的觀點,應該是本好書
評分真的沒有仔細的去看這麼一部大作品,由於是英文版的不能很好的理解,有時候僅僅是齣於完成作業的需求而已。不過它有一個如此宏大的題目,有一個頗具野心的觀點,應該是本好書
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Big History的典範之作,方法論問題Christian寫瞭五六篇論文,總體來說尚受承認:逆用White的「無人不生活於故事中」,把宇宙和人類都扔在故事裏。史詩性的體裁選擇、未來主義指嚮、道德倫理維度的介入,都挑戰著二十世紀末史學理論和實踐中間嚴重的脫節。前前後後的作者都有不少評價和補正。人類中心觀(anthropocentrrism)和某種隱含的進化論是避不開的爭議點【畢竟不是在寫宇宙史,否則六百頁的書人類史能有一行就不錯瞭】,過度理論化也常常為人詬病,但是不得不說仍是一種非常有趣的實踐挑戰,如作者所言,他希望自己的子子孫孫通過瞭解大曆史的故事,「瞭解我們所麵對的挑戰與機遇。」這種明確的未來指嚮近年越來越受關注瞭。
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
Maps of Time 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載