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

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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.

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用特别的形式读了这本小书。确实是fleeting，用来粗略了解还行。

Christian教授07年出版，很薄，同样讲大历史导论，完全可以视作是他的《Maps of Time》的迷你版，非常适用于中学教材、或是对大历史导论有兴趣，却不知如何入手的入门书。教授虽不是第一个提出“大历史导论”的历史学家，但却是我（私自）认为将此理论诠释的非常精彩的人，而且他语言的运用通俗易懂，绝非难以下咽的学术调调，书名起的也好。08年留学的第一堂历史课就是他的大历史导论，将我领进历史学的世界，我今生是何等的荣幸。