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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

09.08.2013

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Mcgraw Hill Higher Education

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352

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27,4/21,5/1,7 cm

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697 g

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Englisch

ISBN

978-0-07-338561-7

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

09.08.2013

Abbildungen

Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert

Verlag

Mcgraw Hill Higher Education

Seitenzahl

352

Maße (L/B/H)

27,4/21,5/1,7 cm

Gewicht

697 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-07-338561-7

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
  • Contents
    Preface
    Introduction: What Is Big History and How Do We Study It?
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Seeing the Whole of the Past
    What Is Big History?
    The Basic Shape of the Story: Increasing Complexity
    A Framework: Eight Major Thresholds of Big History
    A Note on Chronological Systems and Dates
    Summary
    Chapter 1 The First Three Thresholds: The Universe, Stars, and New Chemical Elements
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Threshold 1: Big Bang Cosmology and the Origin of the Universe
    Threshold 2: The Origin of Galaxies and Stars
    Threshold 3: The Creation of New Chemical Elements
    Summary
    Chapter 2 The Fourth Threshold: The Emergence of the Sun, the Solar System, and the Earth
    Threshold 4: The Emergence of the Sun and Solar System
    The Early Earth-a Short History
    Shaping of Earth's Surface
    Summary
    Chapter 3 The Fifth Threshold: The Emergence of Life
    Seeing the Big Picture
    How Life Changes through Natural Selection
    Threshold 5: The Emergence of Life on Earth
    A Brief History of Life on Earth
    Summary
    Chapter 4 The Sixth Threshold: Hominines, Humans, and the Paleolithic Era
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Hominine Evolution: 8 Million to 200,000 Years Ago
    Threshold 6: The Appearance of Homo sapiens
    The Paleolithic Era: 200,000 to 10,000 Years Ago
    Summary
    Chapter 5 The Seventh Threshold: Origins of Agriculture and the Early Agrarian Era
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Threshold 7: Agriculture
    Explaining the Agricultural Revolution
    The Early Agrarian Era
    The Emergence of Consensual Power
    Summary
    Chapter 6 Mini-Threshold: The Appearance of Cities, States, and Agrarian Civilizations
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Defining Cities, States, and Agrarian Civilizations
    The Buildup of Resources and Collective Learning
    Uruk, the First City, in Sumer, the First State
    Cities and States in Other Regions
    Summary
    Chapter 7 Afro-Eurasia during the Era of Agrarian Civilizations: Part 1
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Introduction to the Agrarian Later Era
    The Era of Agrarian Civilizations
    First Trend: The Expansion, Power, and Effectiveness of Agrarian Civilizations and Their Administrations
    Summary
    Chapter 8 Afro-Eurasia during the Era of Agrarian Civilizations: Part 2
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Second Trend: The Establishment of Significant Networks of Exchange among Agrarian Civilizations of Afro-Eurasia
    Third Trend: Evolving Social and Gender Complexity
    Fourth Trend: The Generally Slow Pace of Change and Growth
    Summary
    Chapter 9 Other World Zones during the Era of Agrarian Civilizations
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Agrarian Civilizations of the American Zone
    The Pacific and Australasian World Zones
    Chapter 10 On the Brink of a Threshold: Toward the Modern Revolution
    Seeing the Big Picture
    The Approach of the Modern Revolution
    Why Rates of Innovation Increased: Drivers of Innovation
    The World in 1000 CE
    The Postclassical Malthusian Cycle: Before 1350 CE
    The Early Modern Malthusian Cycle: 1350 to 1700 CE
    The World in 1700 CE
    Summary
    Chapter 11 Crossing the Eighth Threshold: Breakthrough to Modernity
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Threshold 8: The Modern World/Anthropocene
    Social, Agricultural, and Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
    The Spread of the Industrial Revolution
    Political Revolution: The Rise of the Modern State
    The Emergence of Two Worlds-Developed and Developing
    Other Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
    Summary
    Chapter 12 The Anthropocene: Globalization, Growth, and Sustainability
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Introduction
    Part 1: Political and Military Changes
    Part 2: Growth-More Humans Consuming More
    Part 3: The Impact of Growth and Industrialization on Lifeways and Societies
    Part 4: The Anthropocene and the Human Impact on the
    Biosphere-Is Growth Sustainable?
    Summary
    Chapter 13 The History of the Future
    Seeing the Big Picture
    Future 1: The Near Future
    Future 2: The Next Few Thousand Years
    Future 3: The Remote Future
    Conclusion-The End of the Story: Humans in the Cosmos
    Summary
    Glossary
    Credits
    Index