本书原定价29.95美元，净重1060克，馆藏。【图书分类：世界历史】An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It\'s a story that takes in prehistoric geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of Columbus, the industrial revolution, and global warming. Historian Cynthia Brown visits the Vikings, the Mayas and Aztecs, the Incas, the Mongol empire, and the Islamic heartlands. Along the way she considers topics as varied as cell formation, population growth, global disparities, and illiteracy, creating a stunning synthesis of historical and scientific knowledge of humanity and the earth we inhabit. Big History represents a new kind of history, one that skillfully interweaves historical knowledge and cutting-edge science. In an age of global warming, when the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, scientific advances permit us to see the universe as never before, grasping the timescales that allow us to understand the history of mankind in the context of its ecological impact on the planet. Cynthia Brown\'s lucid, accessible narrative is the first popularization of this innovative new field of study, as thrilling as it is ambitious.
Contents: The depths of time and space. Expanding into universe (13.7 billion-4.6 billion years ago) -- Living earth (4.6 billion-5 million years ago) -- Human emergence: one species (5 million-35,000 years ago) -- Advanced hunting and gathering (35,000-10,000 years ago) -- Ten thousand warm years. Early agriculture (8000-3500 BCE) -- Early cities (3500-800 BCE) -- The Afro-Eurasian network (800 BCE-200 CE) -- Expanding the Afro-Eurasian network (200-1000 CE) -- Emergence of American civilizations (200-1450 CE) -- One Afro-Eurasia (1000-1500 CE) -- Connecting the globe (1450-1800 CE) -- Industrialization (1750-2000 CE) -- What now? What next?
Review： Cynthia Brown gives us a global history, one which provides the kind of historical knowledge that all students should bring to their understanding of current happenings.
Ordinary stars turn hydrogen into helium, helium into carbon, and so on. But only supernovas can create elements beyond iron; the elements that make life on Earth possible originated in giant exploding stars. Thus, Cynthia Stokes Brown writes romantically, \"we quite literally are made of stardust.\" Alas, romance doesn\'t last long in Brown\'s brief history of everything. The \"universal ancestor\" -- the first living cells on our planet -- may have been related to today\'s blue-green bacteria. So we are stardust, yes; but we are \"pond scum,\" too. Not to mention farmers: The earliest crops planted in the Americas include chile peppers and pumpkins. And voyagers: The Polynesians who reached Easter Island about 1,600 years ago must have landed on American shores long before Europeans did. How else could sweet potatoes have been introduced to the Polynesian islands? There\'s much to argue about in Brown\'s account, and much to discover. (Alan Cooperman - The Washington Post ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Cynthia Brown gives us a global history, one which provides the kind of historical knowledge that all students should bring to their understanding of current happenings. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
About the Author Cynthia Stokes Brown is a retired professor of education at Dominican University of California. She has written history and biography, including the American Book Award-winning Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement, Connecting with the Past, and Refusing Racism. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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