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.
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.
《人类简史》让我们看到了人类残暴的一面,而《极简人类史》又展示了智人的智慧。 作者大卫•克里斯蒂安,历史学者,专注于研究“大历史”理论,著有《大历史概论:从原点到宇宙万物》等。本书是一本既学术又通俗的人类发展史,它涉及人类史的细节不深,但内容全面,结构脉...
评分中国历史是我读初高中时候最讨厌的学科之一,我似乎永远弄不清楚土地制度为何如此重要,也搞不明白为什么藩镇割据到底是什么意思。在我最近的书单上,也没有任何中国历史。 直到我碰见这一本《哈佛极简中国史》。 这本书英文原名其实是《The Heritage of Chinese Civilization...
评分马克吐温曾经说过,人类总是把自己视为宇宙的中心——或者至少是整个历史的中心。 而事实上,从大爆炸到现在,宇宙进化经历了大约138亿年的时间。科学家将宇宙分为8个层次,分别为物理进化、化学进化、天体演化、地质演变、生物进化、社会进化、人工自然进化。人类历史只是宇宙...
评分马克吐温曾经说过,人类总是把自己视为宇宙的中心——或者至少是整个历史的中心。 而事实上,从大爆炸到现在,宇宙进化经历了大约138亿年的时间。科学家将宇宙分为8个层次,分别为物理进化、化学进化、天体演化、地质演变、生物进化、社会进化、人工自然进化。人类历史只是宇宙...
评分作者在TED的演讲视频,帮助我更好地理解了本书,推荐之!TED演讲集:古代线索:David Christian:宏观历史
详见中文版,中信即将推出《极简人类史:从宇宙大爆炸到21世纪》
评分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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评分详见中文版,中信即将推出《极简人类史:从宇宙大爆炸到21世纪》
评分Christian教授07年出版,很薄,同样讲大历史导论,完全可以视作是他的《Maps of Time》的迷你版,非常适用于中学教材、或是对大历史导论有兴趣,却不知如何入手的入门书。教授虽不是第一个提出“大历史导论”的历史学家,但却是我(私自)认为将此理论诠释的非常精彩的人,而且他语言的运用通俗易懂,绝非难以下咽的学术调调,书名起的也好。08年留学的第一堂历史课就是他的大历史导论,将我领进历史学的世界,我今生是何等的荣幸。
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