Teaching and Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field

Introduction. Big History's Big Potential
Section 1. Understanding and Explaining Big History
David Christian. Swimming Upstream: Universal
Darwinism and
Human History
David Baker. Standing on the Shoulders of
Giants: Collective
Learning as a Key Concept in Big History
Lowell Gustafson. From Particles to Politics
Esther Quaedackers. To See the World in a Building:
A Little Big History of Tiananmen.
Sun Yue. Chinese Traditions and Big
History
Ken Gilbert. The Universal Breakthroughs of
Big History:
Developing a Unified Theory
Ekaterina Sazhienko. The Future of Global
Civilization: Commentary of Big Historians
Section 2. Big History's Phases, Regularities, and
Dimensions
Leonid E. Grinin. The Star-Galaxy Era of Big
History in the Light of Universal Evolutionary
Principles.
Andrey V. Korotayev,. Mathematical Modeling of
Biological and Social
Alexander V.Markov.Phases of
Big History
Ken Baskin. The Dynamics of Evolution: What
Complexity
Theory Suggests for Big History's Approach to Biological
and Cultural Evolution
Abel A. Alves. The Animals of the Spanish
Empire: Humans and
Other Animals in Big History
Craig G. Benjamin. Big History, Collective Learning
and the Silk Roads
Barry Rodrigue. Retrofitting the Future
Joseph Vows. Galactic-Scale
Macro-engineering: Looking for Signs of Other
Intelligent Species, as an Exercise in Hope for Our
Own
Section 3. Teaching Big History
Michael Duffy, Big History and Elementary
Education
D'Neil Duffy
Tracy Sullivan . Big History and the Secondary
Classroom: A Twenty-First Century Approach to "
Interdisciplinarity?
Cynthia Stokes Brown. Constructing a Survey Big
History Course
John Fowler. Cosmology, Mythology, and
the Timeline of Light
Jonathan Cleland Host Big History Beads: A Flexible
Pedagogical Method
Contributors to the volume