Routledge Companion to Big History

Introductory chapters

Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Big History

Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers and David Baker

1 What is big history?

David Christian

PART I

Big history and science

2 Big history and the study of time: the underlying

temporalities of big history

Barry Wood

3 Big history and astronomy - space is big: the Fermi

paradox: its relevance to big history and the human race

Jonathan Markley

4 Big history and macro-evolution: evolutionary principles

and mechanisms at biological and social phases of the

big history

Leonid E. Grinin, Andrey Korotayev and Alexander Markov

PART II

Big history, social science and the humanities

5 Big history and anthropology: our place in the

multiverse: anthropology, civilization and big history

Barry H. Rodrigue

6 Big history and archaeology: archaeology is big history

Brian Fagan

7 Big history and philosophy: philosophical foundations

of big history: why big history makes sense

Armando Menendez Viso

8 Big history and political science: science, the deep past,

and the political

Lowell Gustafson

9 Big history and historiography: deep tides and swirling

foam: the influence of macro-historical trends on micro-historical

events

David Baker

10 Big history and critical theory: science, history and why

theory matters

David Blanks

11 Big history, morality and religion

Cynthia Stokes Brown

PART III

Little big histories

12 A case for little big histories

Esther Quaedackers

13 The little big history of the Nalon River, Asturias, Spain

Olga Garcia-Moreno, Diego Alvarez-Lao, Miguel Arbizu,

Eduardo Dopico, Eva Garcia-Vazquez, Joaquin Garcia Sansegundo,

Montserrat Jimenez-Sanchez, Laura Miralles, Icaro Obeso,

Angel Rodriguez-Rey, Marco de la Rasilla Vives,

Luis Vicente Sanchez Fernandez, Luis Rodriguez Terente,

Luigi Toffolatti and Pablo Turrero

14 Sketch of a little big history of Private E.E. Benjamin

and the Great War

Craig Benjamin

PART IV

Teaching big history

15 The Big History Project in Australia

Tracy Sullivan

16 Big history teaching in Korea

Seohyung Kim

17 Crossing thresholds: using big history to meet challenges

in teaching and learning in the United States

Robert B. Bain

PART V

Big history and the future

18 Big history and the future of technology

Leonid E. Grinin and Anton L. Grinin

19 Big history and the Singularity

Akop P. Nazaretyan

20 Underground metro systems: a durable geological proxy

of rapid urban population growth and energy consumption

during the Anthropocene

Mark Williams, Matt Edgeworth, Jan Zalasiewicz,

Colin N. Waters, Will Steffen, Alexander P. Wolfe,

Nicholas J. Minter, Alejandro Cearreta, Agnieszka Galuszka,

Peter Haff, John McNeill, Andrew Revkin, Daniel deB. Richter,

Simon Price, and Colin Summerhayes

21 The coming energy transition: what comes after

fossil-fueled civilization?

Joseph Voros

Index

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• História: teoria e métodos
• Antropologia
• Escolas secundárias
• Física
• Biologia, ciências da vida
• Museus e museologia
• História geral e do mundo
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens;Big History;physics;Mid-first Millennium BCE;geology;Genus Homo;biology;Young Man;anthropology;Earth Cycles;humanity;Semi-conductor Devices;future;Human Endogenous Retroviruses;futurology;Dominican University Of California;astrophysics;Largest Qualitative Research Study;life science;Energy Source;little big histories;Agrarian Civilizations;archaeology;Fermi Paradox;philosophy;Myos Hormos;political science;Underground Metro Systems;historiography;David Christian;evolution;Trace Fossils;critical theory;Cybernetic Revolution;little big history;Transformative Learning Theory;scientific research;Professional Development;historiographical traditions;Pedro De Medina;big history research;Phanerozoic Eon;Ewha Womans University;Metro Systems;Australian Secondary Schools