TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christian,David
AU  - McNeill,William H.
TI  - Maps of time: an introduction to big history 
T2  - California world history library
AV  - CB19 .C477 2011 
U1  - 901 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - World history
KW  - History
KW  - Geography
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - World
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; COVER; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; TABLES; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE TO THE 2011 EDITION; Introduction: A Modern Creation Myth?; PART I. THE INANIMATE UNIVERSE; 1. The First 3OO,OOO Years: Origins of the Universe, Time, and Space; 2. Origins of the Galaxies and Stars: The Beginnings of Complexity; 3. Origins and History of the Earth; PART II. LIFE ON EARTH; 4. The Origins of Life and the Theory of Evolution; 5. The Evolution of Life and the Biosphere; PART III. EARL Y HUMAN HISTORY: MANY WORLDS; 6. The Evolution of Humans; 7. The Beginnings of Human History; PART IV. THE HOLOCENE: FEW WORLDS8. Intensification and the Origins of Agriculture; 9 From Power over Nature to Power over People: Cities, States, and "Civilizations"; 10. Long Trends in the Era of Agrarian "Civilizations"; PART V. THE MODERN ERA: ONE WORLD; 11. Approaching Modernity; 12. Globalization, Commercialization, and Innovation; 13. Birth of the Modern World; 14. The Great Acceleration of the Twentieth Century; PART VI. PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE; 15. Futures; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
N2  - 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 unprecedented scale. 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
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