Big History
eBook - PDF

Big History

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  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Big History

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About this book

Big History places the history of humanity and the Earth in the largest of contexts - that of the universe. The interdisciplinary approach taken in this Berkshire Essential volume draws from diverse fields including archaeology, paleoanthropology, astronomy, and biology and raises new questions about the future of our species and its relationship to the biosphere. The articles, including several written by author David Christian, convey big history's span and scope from cosmology, creation myths, and the Gaia theory to ice ages, extinctions, and migrations. Big History also explains why many geologists believe the world entered a new geological epoch (the Anthropocene) at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when human activity unwittingly became the single most important force for change in the biosphere.

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Information

Publisher
Berkshire Education
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781614729471
Edition
0
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. About this “Berkshire Essentials” volume
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Big History
  7. Agricultural Societies
  8. Animism
  9. Anthropocene
  10. Anthroposphere
  11. Art, Paleolithic
  12. Biological Exchanges
  13. Carrying Capacity
  14. Climate Change
  15. Cosmology
  16. Creation Myths
  17. Diseases
  18. Domestication, Plant and Animal
  19. Extinctions
  20. Gaia Theory
  21. Human Evolution
  22. Ice Ages
  23. Migration
  24. Mountains
  25. Oceania, Ancient
  26. Oceans and Seas
  27. Population and the Environment
  28. Population Growth
  29. Trees
  30. Tropical Gardening
  31. Universe, Origins of
  32. Index
  33. Editorial Board and Staff
  34. Author Credits