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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

por Cynthia Stokes Brown

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"This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped--and how they in turn shaped the world we know today." --Publishers Weekly   This book offers "world history on a grand scale"--pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively brief time span of human history in context. After all, our five thousand years of recorded civilization account for only about one millionth of the lifetime of our planet (Kirkus Reviews).   Big History interweaves different disciplines of knowledge, drawing on both the natural sciences and the human sciences, to offer an all-encompassing account of history on Earth. This new edition is more relevant than ever before, as we increasingly grapple with accelerating rates of change and, ultimately, the legacy we will bequeath to future generations. Here is a path-breaking portrait of our world, from the birth of the universe from a single point the size of an atom to life on a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by seven billion people.… (mais)
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Stokes Brown beweert dat dit het eerste echte uitgebreide overzichtswerk over Big History, maar tegelijk erkent ze openlijk dat ze erg schatplichtig is aan David Christian en zijn ‘Maps of Time’, dat 3 jaar eerder verscheen. Met uitzondering van de eerste hoofdstukken over het ontstaan van de kosmos en het leven op aarde, volgt Stokes Brown echter vooral de chronologie en periodisering van vader en zoon McNeill (‘The Human Web’, 2003) en wordt haar relaas eerder een klassieke wereldgeschiedenis. Positief is de aandacht die ze geeft aan ecologische aspecten, en ook het didactische luik op het einde van elk hoofdstuk met een opsomming van onbeantwoorde vragen is aanvankelijk erg inspirerend. Maar ronduit ergerlijk is dat Stokes Brown regelmatig erg verouderde visies weergeeft (over de Kelten bijvoorbeeld), aandacht besteedt aan omstreden theorieën zoals het Black Athena van Bernal, de Nazca-lijnen in Peru van Von Däniken en de boeken van Gavin Menzies. Ze is ook geregeld erg onzorgvuldig in haar formuleringen, in de eerste hoofdstukken bijvoorbeeld toont haar woordgebruik aan dat ze niet echt de evolutietheorie van Darwin heeft begrepen. En naarmate we dichter komen bij de huidige tijd wordt het erger: het hoofdstuk over de periode 1500-1800 “Eén wereld” noemen is toch wel echt te kort door de bocht; of de instorting van de Sovjetunie, in 1991 wijten aan de “partijleiders die snakten naar de materiële voordelen van het kapitalisme”, dat is toch van een banaliteit die sprakeloos maakt. Kortom, dit is duidelijk een gefaalde poging tot Big History! ( )
  bookomaniac | Jul 31, 2018 |
This is a fine introduction to the subject of big history, a sort of broad view of the universe, Earth, and humanity. There should have been some better fact-checking - the claim on page 7 that the cosmic microwave background is "3 degrees Celsius, just as predicted by the Big Bang," is embarrassing (It's just under 3 degrees KELVIN, the equivalent of 270 degrees BELOW ZERO Celsius). Such an egregious error so early on makes it difficult to take anything in the book at face value. ( )
  waitingtoderail | Jun 21, 2016 |
Vast subject, covering the formation of the earth and solar system, gradual development of life and animal species, and finally the evolution of man. The book attempts to cover the history of mankind, but can only highlight major developments and peoples in this limited space. Nonetheless, the coverage is good, although in audio format, I did not think the narrator, Teri Clark Linden, was as polished as many other professionals. I'd also say that if you're running out of time or patience by the time you hit the last chapter, you can omit it without missing anything. ( )
  batcheller | Feb 21, 2013 |
Very nice concise overview. Broad brush strokes applied competently. ( )
  SymphonySil | Jan 11, 2012 |
Esta obra es una auténtica epopeya de nuestro tiempo, desde el comienzo del universo, cuando éste no es más que un único punto del tamaño de un átomo, hasta el siglo XXI en un planeta superpoblado. Así, nos habla del Big Bang, de la formación de nuestro Sistema Solar, de la aparición de la vida en la Tierra, de la evolución humana, tanto fisiológica como culturalmente, los primeros agricultores, la esclavitud, los intercambios comerciales, las disparidades mundiales, el analfabetismo, etc. La autora consigue crear una asombrosa síntesis de la historia y del conocimiento científico de la humanidad y la tierra que habitamos. ( )
  BibliotecaUNED | May 6, 2011 |
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"This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped--and how they in turn shaped the world we know today." --Publishers Weekly   This book offers "world history on a grand scale"--pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively brief time span of human history in context. After all, our five thousand years of recorded civilization account for only about one millionth of the lifetime of our planet (Kirkus Reviews).   Big History interweaves different disciplines of knowledge, drawing on both the natural sciences and the human sciences, to offer an all-encompassing account of history on Earth. This new edition is more relevant than ever before, as we increasingly grapple with accelerating rates of change and, ultimately, the legacy we will bequeath to future generations. Here is a path-breaking portrait of our world, from the birth of the universe from a single point the size of an atom to life on a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by seven billion people.

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