Meaning of big history | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present.
   capitalized, countable, sometimes, uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of big history.
   alt-of, uncountable, usually

Examples

“And for the last⟳ 20 years or so, the historians David Christian and Fred Spier have⟳ championed big history, urging their colleagues to begin⟳ their once-upon-a-time accounts billions of years ago, with the big bang.”

“Fans of Big History want⟳ to put⟳ geology and the climate at the centre of the subject, alongside other branches of science and technology. They believe⟳ it is essential to show⟳ that the course of human life has been altered by both natural and manmade factors.”

“Big History’s claims to a dramatic new departure seem, in fact, to amount to a superficial re-labelling of most school subjects as “history” in an attempt⟳ to link⟳ them.”

“We began talking about the Parisian street plan⟳ as seen from a Big History perspective, and I began fantasizing about all kinds of possible connections between this street plan⟳ and several Big History topics.”

“Big history did not spring⟳ out of some historical vacuum. It is a continuation of the great historiographical tradition of universal history, which in its written form⟳ dates back to Classical Greece and Han China, and in its oral form⟳ to the earliest human communities.”

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