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Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in a book that fits human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner. An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century planet inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It's a story that takes in prehistoric geology, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of Columbus, the industrial revolution, and global warming. Historian Cynthia Brown visits the Vikings, the Mayas and Aztecs, the Incas, the Mongol empire, and the Islamic heartlands. Along the way she considers topics as varied as cell formation, population growth, global disparities, and illiteracy, creating a stunning synthesis of historical and scientific knowledge of humanity and the earth we inhabit. Big History represents a new kind of history, one that skillfully interweaves historical knowledge and cutting-edge science. In an age of global warming, when the fate of the earth hangs in the balance, scientific advances permit us to see the universe as never before, grasping the timescales that allow us t

Author

Brown, Cynthia Stokes

Publisher

New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781595584144

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.87 / 5 (433 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14