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Title: Big history : the longest 'durée'
Related: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009), p.91-106
Related: http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/oezg/OeZG092.html
Publisher: Studienverlag
Date: 2009
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 210300 Historical Studies
Author/Creator: Christian, David
Description: Big history surveys the past on all scales up to those of cosmology. It answers questions explored in traditional creation stories and universal histories, but it does so with the methods and the evidence of modern scientific scholarship. Though still marginal within historical scholarship, big history is attracting increasing interest and holds out the promise of a fruitful unification of different disciplines that study the past at many different scales. This paper discusses the emergence of big history and its current status and role within historical scholarship.
Description: 16 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 210300 Historical Studies
Subject Keyword: world history
Subject Keyword: universal history
Subject Keyword: creation story
Subject Keyword: chronometric revolution
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History, Politics and International Relations

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