This Fleeting World

David Christian is a professor of world history at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and co-founder, with Bill Gates, of the Big History Project. In 1989, Christian began teaching the first course on big history, an interdisciplinary field that examines history starting with the Big Bang, and his work came to the attention of Bill Gates through a video course produced by The Teaching Company. In 2014, Gates and Christian were the subjects of the cover story of the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the World History Association book prize (2004), and is writing a history of Central Asia. He is also the author of Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation and (with R. E. F. Smith) Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia. He has spoken about big history at the TED Conference, the World Economic Forum, and on the Comedy Central program The Colbert Report.

出版者:Berkshire Publishing Group

作者:David Christian

页数:120

出版时间:2007-6

价格:USD$ 18.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781933782041

图书标签:历史原版2017

A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today s version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, makes the journey from the earliest foraging era to the agrarian era to our own modern era a fascinating one. Ready to help your students give up their preconceptions that anything old is probably boring? Enter This Fleeting World. A compact, easy-to-read overview of world history, ideal for curriculum development, classroom preparation, and student review.

读后感

从去年开始，我给学生布置了一个特殊的作业，名叫“东写西读计划”。这是一个利用网络平台，就某个话题，阅读相关资料，跟帖与讨论的作业。虽然这是历史课上的作业，但我设计的话题并非局限在历史学。迄今为止，我们讨论的话题涉及：由“日本首相安倍战后七十周年讲话”谈宽恕...  

中华文明是世界上最古老的文明之一，她历经数千年仍然完好地保持了文化传统的延续性，堪称人类历史上的奇迹。正是因为她的独特和神秘，使其成为欧美历史学界的研究热点之一。 《哈佛极简中国史》是一本广受欧美读者欢迎的中国史入门读物，其代表了欧美主流的中国史观。美国汉...  

当我们讲述世界史时，我们应该从何开始？如何从浩瀚纷繁的史实中找到一条主线，阐释人类历史走向的背后逻辑？ 澳大利亚麦考瑞大学（Macquare University）历史学教授大卫·克里斯蒂安（David Christian）给出的答案是，让我们从宇宙大爆炸开始讲述人类的故事吧。 克里斯蒂安...  

用户评价

undergrad reader

详见中文版，中信即将推出《极简人类史：从宇宙大爆炸到21世纪》

详见中文版，中信即将推出《极简人类史：从宇宙大爆炸到21世纪》

undergrad reader

用特别的形式读了这本小书。确实是fleeting，用来粗略了解还行。