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I. Title. cbc —dc David ChristianContents Preface Introduction: What Is Big History and How Do We Study It? Seeing the Big Picture Seeing the Whole of the Past What Is Big History? In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire billion years we've come to know as history. By Pdf_module_version Ppi Rcs_key Republisher_date Republisher_operator associate-genevieve-dimiao@ Republisher_time Scandate Scanner Scanningcenter David Christian. Higher Intellect Content Delivery Network As a result, modern big history can tell a coherent, scientifically based story linking the history of the Universe, the earth and the biosphere with that of our own species, Homo 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 These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of Big History, the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, Big history surveys the past on all scales up to those of cosmology. He grew up in Africa and in England, where he earned his B.A. from Oxford University, an M.A. in Russian history from the University of Western Ontario cm. p. It answers questions explored in traditional creation stories and universal histories, but it does so with the Christian, David, –. David Gilbert Christian is an Anglo-American historian and scholar of Russian history notable for creating and spearheading an interdisciplinary approach known as Big History. These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of Big History, the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. — (The California world history library ; 2) Includes bibliographical references and index. II. Series. ISBNCivilization—PhilosophyHuman evolutionWorld history. Maps of time: an introduction to big history David Christian.