Blog
Save
Email
Print
ShareAn 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.
See also:
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..
For more information about the title Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library), read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang — Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that “steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory.” ... > read more
Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution — During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the ... > read more
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) — Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to ... > read more
Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Cosmos — Once we thought the universe was filled with shining stars, dust, planets, and galaxies. We now know that more than 98 percent of all matter in the ... > read moreRecommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
more 