Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

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Professor David Christian

San Diego State University

Course Guidebook

History

Topic Civilization

& Culture

Subtopic

Big History

Guidebook

Big History:

The Big Bang, Life on Earth,

and the Rise of Humanity

Professor David Christian, formerly Professor of History

at San Diego State University, is one of the pioneers of the

field of big history. Currently he is Professor of History at

Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author

of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won

the 2005 World History Association Book Prize, and This

Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity. He is coeditor

of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History.