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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