What is Big History?

What is Big History?

Big history is a new disciplinary field of scholarship that studies the past at all possible scales. Its approach is historical, but it links disciplines from cosmology to geology to evolutionary biology and human history. Beginning with E.H. Carr’s What is History?, this essay describes the evolu...

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Main Author:	David Christian
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Big History Association 2017-01-01
Series:	Journal of Big History
Subjects:	big history historiography theory of history consilience historical sciences history of science
Online Access:	https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/JBH/article/view/2241/2127

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