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The big history is studying history at a large scale, the Big Bang to the world, using a multidisciplinary approach. It approximates the global history or world history, but more akin to the classic concept of universal history, in that it examines the history of the beginning of time until the present time, without confined to the history of the human race. The big history feeds the results of fields of study as diverse as biology, astronomy, geology, climatology, prehistory, archeology, anthropology, natural sciences, demography, environmental sciences, etc.
The objective: passing glances disciplinary down specialties that have emerged in the twentieth century, to highlight major themes of evolution and cause recurring.
It is also out of national, multiply the points of view on history, paying out a certain Eurocentrism. The first attempts at conducting a large-scale history dating from the late 1980s: John Mears (Southern Methodist University, Texas) and David Christian (Macquarie University, Australia) appear as the initiators of the current.
The approach is undoubtedly a need echoed increasingly prégnante among contemporaries in the era of globalization, understand the world as a whole. Published in 2004, Maps of Time: An introduction to big history, D. Christian, takes place today as a reference on the subject.
The first five chapters discuss the origin and evolution of the universe, galaxies, stars, solar system and Earth.
Chapters VI and VII are studying the first human organizations, Chapter VIII is devoted to early agrarian societies.
Chapters XI to XIV deal with the origin and forms of modernity.
The final chapter attempts a projection into the future. "Try a light embrace the past, it is similar, says D. Christian, the fact of using a globe. Do any geographer discipline with only a plan for streets. Currently, most historians teach the past of nations, even agrarian civilizations, without even questioning the general sense of the past. What time is the equivalent of a world map? Is there an atlas of the time that summarizes the past with all its scales? "He urged his contemporaries to put on a fresh history.