Big History and the Future of Humanity

Europe and the People without History

Gran, P., & Wolf, E. R. (1984) · The History Teacher · doi:10.2307/493157 · Cited by 3,777

The self-organizing universe

Jantsch, E. (1980) · Pergamon Press eBooks · Cited by 1,156

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community

Stavrianos, L. S., & McNeill, W. H. (1964) · The American Historical Review · doi:10.1086/ahr/69.3.713 · Cited by 602

Maps of time: an introduction to big history

(2004) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.42-1708 · Cited by 544

Victorian sensation: the extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation

(2001) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.38-6148 · Cited by 511

Apollo's eye: a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the Western imagination

(2001) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.39-2330 · Cited by 457

The emergence of everything: how the world became complex

(2003) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.40-4575 · Cited by 329

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

Ikenberry, G. J., McNeill, J. R., & McNeill, W. H. (2003) · Foreign Affairs · doi:10.2307/20033586 · Cited by 282

Earthrise: how man first saw the Earth

(2009) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.46-3820 · Cited by 243

The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era--A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos

Swimme, B. T., & Berry, T. (1992) · CIIS Digital Commons (California Institute of Integral Studies) · Cited by 241

Dual Closure: a New Tool for Recognizing Thresholds Between Levels of Organization in Big History

Akkerhuis, G. J. O. (2023) · Journal of Big History · doi:10.22339/jbh.v6i3.6305 · Cited by 2

Herbert Spencer and the paradox of war

Schuurman, P. (2016) · Intellectual History Review · doi:10.1080/17496977.2016.1220734 · Cited by 2

Expanding worldviews: cosmic perspectives

Crawford, I. (2019) · Astronomy & Geophysics · doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atz195 · Cited by 2

2 Big History Research: A First Outline

Spier, F. (2011) · Cited by 2

Evolutionary Systems Theory: Concepts and Schools in International Relations

Rennstich, J. K. (2018) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.391 · Cited by 2

Big History

Spier, F. (2012) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118305492.ch11 · Cited by 2

A Pedagogical Proposal for Enhancing Undergraduate Biology Education through Complex Systems Thinking (CST)

Narguizian, P. (2025) · Journal of Big History · doi:10.22339/jbh.v8i1.8109 · Cited by 1

A Missed Opportunity for World History in Texas

Fisher, D. C. (2012) · Palgrave Macmillan eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781137008947_10 · Cited by 1

Anthropathology: The Abiding Malady of the Species

Feltham, C. (2017) · Evolutionary psychology · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60576-0_9 · Cited by 1

Structured Data Facilitate Learning Design for Energetic Transition

Ahamer, G. (2018) · International Journal of Technology and Educational Marketing · doi:10.4018/ijtem.2018070101 · Cited by 1

Contribuições preliminares da história universal de H.G. Wells: elementos de história socioevolucionista e da world history contemporânea

Iachtechen, F. L. (2019) · Esboços histórias em contextos globais · doi:10.5007/2175-7976.2019v26n42p290 · Cited by 1

Life with a field geologist: Improbable adventures on five continents

Alvarez, M. (2022) · Geological Society of America eBooks · doi:10.1130/2022.2557(01 · Cited by 1

Environmental Protection Policy and the Emergence of New Diseases: A Global Empirical Analysis of the Pre- and Post-industrial Era

Chen, D., bin Ibrahim, M., Ibrahim, S. S., Yang, Y., Danjaji, H. A., & Muazu, T. (2022) · Agricultural Science Digest - A Research Journal · doi:10.18805/ag.df-457 · Cited by 1

On Trends and Periods in Big History

Aunger, R. V. (2024) · Journal of Big History · doi:10.22339/jbh.v7i2.7204 · Cited by 1

Profiling 'Threshold 9': Using Big History as a framework for thinking about the contours of the coming global future

Voros, J. (2013) · Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) · doi:10.25916/sut.26284732 · Cited by 1

Early State Formation from a Big History Point of View

Spier, F. (2017) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316550328.008 · Cited by 1

Aging and Evolution

Crevecoeur, G. U. (2018) · Journal of Big History · doi:10.22339/jbh.v2i2.2303 · Cited by 1

The Birth of Life

Ligrone, R. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16057-9_3 · Cited by 1

COGITO in Space

de Paulis, D. (2021) · Springer proceedings in physics · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63806-1_6 · Cited by 1

SETI e a Grande História: Desafio e Extensão

Gustafson, L. S. (2020) · Journal of Big History · doi:10.22339/jbh.v4i2.4212 · Cited by 1

Thermodynamics and the Sustainability of Cities

Bristow, D. N. (2013) · TSpace (University of Toronto) · Cited by 1

The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative MappingPreprint

Landa, J. Á. G. (2014) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.3769109 · Cited by 1

The Evolution Of NarratologyPreprint

Landa, J. Á. G., & Комуцци, Л. В. (2013) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.13130/2037-2426/3541 · Cited by 1

Environmental History and World History

Pomeranz, K. L. (2014) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118525395.ch23

THE BIG HISTORY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND THE ATHENIAN PLAGUE

Foth, B. (2013) · California State University ScholarWorks (system-wide DSpace)

Toward the True Second Law Part II: The Untenable Assumption of Current Second Law Thermodynamics and the Come into being of the Negentropic Formulation

Iñiguez, J. C. (2015) · Applied Physics Research · doi:10.5539/apr.v7n5p39

Fish, Crystal, and Loop: Dreiser’s Histories in the “Trilogy of Desire”

Graham, T. (2013) · ELH · doi:10.1353/elh.2013.0043

The Promise of Global Environmental History

Hamilton, S. R. (2012) · Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

I. UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 1 How Big History Works: Energy Flows and the Rise and Demise of Complexity *

Spier, F. (2011)

I. EVOLUTION AND UNDERSTANDING OF BIG HISTORY 1 The Evolution of Big History: A Short Introduction

Christian, D. (2011)

IV. THE DRIVING FORCES AND PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION

Baker, D. (2013)

Исторический манифест: Глава 3. Длинное и короткое: Глобальное потепление, регулирование и неравенство в 1970-е и после

Гулди, Д., & Армитедж, Д. (2015) · Ab imperio · doi:10.1353/imp.2015.0074

Big History'S Big Potential

Grinin, L. E., Baker, D., Quaedackers, E., & Korotayev, A. (2014) · Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) · doi:10.5281/zenodo.1250779

Mobile Content and Walking Documentary

Adam, F. (2015) · Advances in multimedia and interactive technologies book series · doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-8838-4.ch016

A Thermodynamic Account of the Emergence of Organised Matter

Akkerhuis, G. A. J. M. J. O. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-43802-3_14

A Review of Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Kradin, N. N. (2016) · Cliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution · doi:10.21237/c7clio7233333

The Evolutionary Epic

Hesketh, I. (2015) · Victorian review · doi:10.1353/vcr.2015.0014

Beyond Global Studies. An Introductory Lecture into a Big History Course

Grinin, L. E., Korotayev, A., & Baker, D. (2014)

Nature’s Artistic Narrative

Gustafson, L. S. (2017) · Journal of literature and art studies · doi:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.10.019

The University and Interdisciplinarity

Remedios, F., & Dusek, V. (2018) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37490-5_4

Resuscitating myth: Hollywood, Big History and transdisciplinary theology

Loubser, G. M., & du Toit, C. C. (2018) · HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies · doi:10.4102/hts.v74i4.4921

Narrativizing Theory: The Role of Ambiguity in Religious Aesthetics

Peters, B. (2018) · Digital Commons - DU (University of Denver)

Sustainable Development and the Problem of Economic Inequality

Sinha, A. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-13-9981-7_21

Relations, Human and Non-human

Kurki, M. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198850885.003.0006

Conclusion

Kurki, M. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198850885.003.0009

Reorienting to the International, the Global and the Planetary

Kurki, M. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198850885.003.0008

Energy Leads and Transitions

Thompson, W. R. (2020) · World-systems evolution and global futures · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47422-5_5

Coda: A World of Epochal Transformations

Simon, Z. B. (2020) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47805-6_7

ПЕРЕСТУПАЯ ЧЕРЕЗ ПОРОГ КИБОРГИЗАЦИИ

Леонидович, Г. А., & Grinin, L. E. (2020) · Journal of Big History · doi:10.22339/jbh.v4i3.4331

Histories of Globalization

Pieterse, J. N. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59598-2_5

La storia della mobilità. Uno studio critico sulle origini, l'evoluzione della disciplina e le carenze della letteratura italiana

Fari, S. (2021) · ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA · doi:10.3280/ic2021-295005

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Preface

Manning, P. M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108784528.001

Historical Foundations for Future Speculations

Last, C. (2020) · World-systems evolution and global futures · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46966-5_2

Dinosaurs could not help it, can we? Big history and planetary health

García-Moreno*, O., & Oranje, M. P. (2022) · Geological Society of America eBooks · doi:10.1130/2022.2557(03

The Origins

Ligrone, R. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16057-9_2

Evolutionary Theory

de Vries, G. (2017) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118430873.est0115

Global How

Pieterse, J. N. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59598-2_2

Mobile Content and Walking Documentary

Adam, F. (2018) · IGI Global eBooks · doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-5484-4.ch070

Greetings and Welcome

Rodrigue, B. H. (2023) · Journal of Big History · doi:10.22339/jbh.v6i1.6112

The moral brain as content and context for educational innovation in southwestern Madagascar

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Afterword

Woolf, D. R. (2024) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781003331971-19

Conditio Humana—The Geologization of Culture

Antweiler, C. (2024) · Anthropocene - humanities and social sciences · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-74591-1_6

Humans Make Earth History—New Earth and New Anthropology

Antweiler, C. (2024) · Anthropocene - humanities and social sciences · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-74591-1_1

Hypothesis in Contemporary Astronomy: An Incoming Interaction Between the Milky Way and Another Galaxy?Preprint

Carp, T.-N. (2025) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202504.2030.v1

Hypothesis in Contemporary Astronomy: An Incoming Interaction Between the Milky Way and Another Galaxy?Preprint

Carp, T.-N. (2025) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202504.2030.v2

Animal Agency and Plutarch’s Elephants

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A Big History Perspective on Complexity in Universal Evolution: Conclusions

LePoire, D. J., Grinin, L., & Korotayev, A. (2026) · World-systems evolution and global futures · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-20517-9_22

The Evolution of Complexity in the Stelliferous Era: Observations and Patterns

Korotayev, A., & LePoire, D. J. (2026) · World-systems evolution and global futures · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-20517-9_5

Introduction to Complexity Theory for Big History

LePoire, D. J., Grinin, L., & Korotayev, A. (2026) · World-systems evolution and global futures · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-20517-9_2

Introduction

Brooke, J. L. (2014) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139050814.001

Commentary: Book Review: Big History and the Future of Humanity

Spier, F. (2017) · Frontiers in Physics · doi:10.3389/fphy.2017.00035

Introduction. From the History of Humankind to Big History

Grinin, L. E., & Korotayev, A. (2019)

Big History die Geschichte der Welt - vom Urknall bis zur Zukunft der Menschheit

Christian, D., Kober, H., & Verlag, P. (2018)

Big History: From The Big Bang to the Present

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The Big History of Past, Present, and Future

Benjamin, C. (2023) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781003026570-6