A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today s version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, makes the journey from the earliest foraging era to the agrarian era to our own modern era a fascinating one. Ready to help your students give up their preconceptions that anything old is probably boring? Enter This Fleeting World. A compact, easy-to-read overview of world history, ideal for curriculum development, classroom preparation, and student review.
David Christian is a professor of world history at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and co-founder, with Bill Gates, of the Big History Project. In 1989, Christian began teaching the first course on big history, an interdisciplinary field that examines history starting with the Big Bang, and his work came to the attention of Bill Gates through a video course produced by The Teaching Company. In 2014, Gates and Christian were the subjects of the cover story of the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the World History Association book prize (2004), and is writing a history of Central Asia. He is also the author of Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation and (with R. E. F. Smith) Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia. He has spoken about big history at the TED Conference, the World Economic Forum, and on the Comedy Central program The Colbert Report.
我们迫切地需要理解整个人类的历史,这正是眼前这本《极简人类史》的写作初衷。今天的世界联系空前紧密,面临的问题也越来越多。生活在地球村,我们不但要了解彼此的分歧,更应该清楚彼此共同的关切。如果我们想避免因战争或生态崩溃( 或两者共同作用)导致的全球性危机,“ ...
评分当我们讲述世界史时,我们应该从何开始?如何从浩瀚纷繁的史实中找到一条主线,阐释人类历史走向的背后逻辑? 澳大利亚麦考瑞大学(Macquare University)历史学教授大卫·克里斯蒂安(David Christian)给出的答案是,让我们从宇宙大爆炸开始讲述人类的故事吧。 克里斯蒂安...
评分朋友,你知道人类在地球上生存多久了吗?最早的生物出现在什么时候?恐龙是何时成为世界主宰的?世界上最早的城市和国家诞生于什么地方?第一个帝国叫什么名字?农耕时代延续了多少年?你知道人类的近亲是什么动物?工业革命是由哪个国家最先启动的?八国联军侵华是哪八个国...
评分“大历史”叙事的陷阱:读《极简人类史》 最近一本据说连比尔·盖茨都赞叹不已的“大历史”(big history)图书吸引力我的目光——大卫·克里斯蒂安所写《极简人类史:从宇宙大爆炸到21世纪》。光从“编辑推荐”栏目中,就能看到一片热捧之场景,比如: “描绘了一幅人类历...
评分朋友,你知道人类在地球上生存多久了吗?最早的生物出现在什么时候?恐龙是何时成为世界主宰的?世界上最早的城市和国家诞生于什么地方?第一个帝国叫什么名字?农耕时代延续了多少年?你知道人类的近亲是什么动物?工业革命是由哪个国家最先启动的?八国联军侵华是哪八个国...
用特别的形式读了这本小书。确实是fleeting,用来粗略了解还行。
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