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Big History and the Future of Humanity
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Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an theoretical approach that makes "big history" - the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity.
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“There is a strong synergy here with the emerging discipline of ' Big History '”
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Maps of time: an introduction to big history
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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
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Earthrise: how man first saw the Earth
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Big history and the future of humanity
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- Authors
- Spier, F.
- Corresponding author
- Spier, Fred
- Venue
- Wiley eBooks
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-03-26
- OpenAlex
- W1536365263
- Cited by
- 174
- References
- 88
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 8.67
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- handle.uba.uva.nl
- Licence
- Locations
- Wiley eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Dominican Scholar (Dominican University of California) (submittedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Globalization, Historical Perspectives, and International Relations
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Philosophy, History, and Historiography
- Keywords
- big history, future of humanity, history of life, Earth history, cosmology
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