A History of Big History

A History of Big History
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 136
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781009041560
ISBN-13 : 1009041568
Rating : 4/5 (568 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A History of Big History by : Ian Hesketh

Download or read book A History of Big History written by Ian Hesketh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big History is a seemingly novel approach that seeks to situate human history within a grand cosmic story of life. It claims to do so by uniting the historical sciences in order to construct a linear and accurate timeline of 'threshold moments' beginning with the Big Bang and ending with the present and future development of humanity itself. As well as examining the theory and practice of Big History, this Element considers Big History alongside previous largescale attempts to unite human and natural history, and includes comparative discussions of the practices of chronology, universal history, and the evolutionary epic.


A History of Big History Related Books

Metahistory
Language: en
Pages: 483
Authors: Hayden White
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-30 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use literary techniques to write sophisticated historical works.
A History of Big History
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Ian Hesketh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Big History is a seemingly novel approach that seeks to situate human history within a grand cosmic story of life. It claims to do so by uniting the historical
Teaching Big History
Language: en
Pages: 443
Authors: Richard B. Simon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-23 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics,
Beyond the Great Story
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Robert F. Berkhofer
Categories: Historia
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theorie
Prophets of the Past
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Michael Brenner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-02 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no