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Maps of Time An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library) (9780520244764) David Christian, William H. McNeill

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Paperback: 664 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520244761
ISBN-13: 978-0520244764



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8.8 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
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Editorial Reviews About the editor of the San Diego State University historian Christian is one of the founders of the "Big Story" of the movement download you say more than you think pdf. His basic assumption is that to really make sense of the history of mankind is the story with almost all other disciplines are integrated and to do this correctly, historians have traced back to antiquity download you say more than you think pdf. It is always very well received for the historian to biology, economics, environmental science and policy and to draw a variety of other disciplines, and Christian has to explain a very beautiful work, what factors led to the rise of states, the industrial revolution and the information Revolution, and look at the future possibilities for mankind. What is far less successful integration of cosmology, astrophysics and evolutionary biology with the basic price of the rule is to be involved with historical analysis. Instead of using the principles of the cosmological Big Bang, to show, for example, "the underlying unity and coherence" is linked in all the systems over time, leaves the reader with a Christian metaphor low and limited picture. In the attempt, the entire universe in 13000000000 years of a single volume, even comprise nearly 600 pages, Christian is forced to use this one broad brush, that the reader has a lot to find this book rather superficial. 45 b & w illustrations., 9 maps. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. - This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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