The Routledge Companion to Big History

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Introductory chapters
	Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Big History
	1 What is big history?
PART I: Big history and science
	2 Big history and the study of time: the underlying temporalities of big history
	3 Big history and astronomy – space is big: the Fermi paradox: its relevance to big history and the human race
	4 Big history and macro-evolution: evolutionary principles and mechanisms at biological and social phases of the big history
PART II: Big history, social science and the humanities
	5 Big history and anthropology: our place in the multiverse: anthropology, civilization and big history
	6 Big history and archaeology: archaeology is big history
	7 Big history and philosophy: philosophical foundations of big history: why big history makes sense
	8 Big history and political science: science, the deep past, and the political
	9 Big history and historiography: deep tides and swirling foam: the influence of macro-historical trends on micro-historical events
	10 Big history and critical theory: science, history and why theory matters
	11 Big history, morality and religion
PART III: Little big histories
	12 A case for little big histories
	13 The little big history of the Nalón River, Asturias, Spain
	14 Sketch of a little big history of Private E.E. Benjamin and the Great War
PART IV: Teaching big history
	15 The Big History Project in Australia
	16 Big history teaching in Korea
	17 Crossing thresholds: using big history to meet challenges in teaching and learning in the United States
PART V: Big history and the future
	18 Big history and the future of technology
	19 Big history and the Singularity
	20 Underground metro systems: a durable geological proxy of rapid urban population growth and energy consumption during the Anthropocene
	21 The coming energy transition: what comes after fossil-fueled civilization?
Index