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.
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.
“大历史”叙事的陷阱:读《极简人类史》 最近一本据说连比尔·盖茨都赞叹不已的“大历史”(big history)图书吸引力我的目光——大卫·克里斯蒂安所写《极简人类史:从宇宙大爆炸到21世纪》。光从“编辑推荐”栏目中,就能看到一片热捧之场景,比如: “描绘了一幅人类历...
评分 评分马克吐温曾经说过,人类总是把自己视为宇宙的中心——或者至少是整个历史的中心。 而事实上,从大爆炸到现在,宇宙进化经历了大约138亿年的时间。科学家将宇宙分为8个层次,分别为物理进化、化学进化、天体演化、地质演变、生物进化、社会进化、人工自然进化。人类历史只是宇宙...
评分我们迫切地需要理解整个人类的历史,这正是眼前这本《极简人类史》的写作初衷。今天的世界联系空前紧密,面临的问题也越来越多。生活在地球村,我们不但要了解彼此的分歧,更应该清楚彼此共同的关切。如果我们想避免因战争或生态崩溃( 或两者共同作用)导致的全球性危机,“ ...
评分如何用最精炼的语言讲清有人类以来的历史,这个问题在艺术家眼里和画画无异:要画一棵树,最容易是简笔画,两根直线画出树干、一圈弧线代表叶子;也可以勾勒出树干的枝节曲折、树叶的形状光影;更精细的工笔画可以明察秋毫地刻画出树的质地和纹理。无论何种画法,树干、树叶的...
用特别的形式读了这本小书。确实是fleeting,用来粗略了解还行。
评分详见中文版,中信即将推出《极简人类史:从宇宙大爆炸到21世纪》
评分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。
评分用特别的形式读了这本小书。确实是fleeting,用来粗略了解还行。
评分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。
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