This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity by David Christian

This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity



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This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity David Christian
Language: English
Page: 120
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1933782048, 9781933782041
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I first became an avid student of David Christian by watching his course, Big History, on DVD, so I am very happy to see his enlightening presentation of the world's history captured in these essays. I hope it will introduce a wider audience to this gifted scientist and teacher. --Bill Gates

Julius Caesar famously summed up the surprises and confusion of ten years of war in Gaul with three Latin words: veni, vidi, vinci I came, I saw, I conquered. Here, David Christian performs a similar feat by summing up the surprises and confusion of 250,000 years of human history in just 92 pages; and improves on Caesar s boast by showing how persistent collective learning expanded human skills, and enlarged our numbers, wealth, and power across the ages. What a quick, convenient, and persuasive way to begin to understand the confusing world in which we find ourselves! --William H. McNeill, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago; author of The Rise of the West (National Book Award) and The Human Web

No one except David Christian could do it. He has a unique talent for mastering data, processing it efficiently, and writing it up lucidly. He can simplify without dumbing down and can be provocative without sliding into outrage. Readers can rely on him for a sensitive, well-informed, well-judged, reflective, and miraculously concise overview. --Felipe Fernández-Armesto, professor of modern history, University of Notre Dame

About the Author

David Christian is a professor at San Diego State University, where he teaches world history, environmental history, and Russian history. He is the author of Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the World History Association prize for the best book in world history published in 2004. David Christian has also written A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Volume 1: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire; Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the Challenge of Modernity; and Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation.

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