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History, big history, & metahistory / [edited by] David C. Krakauer, John Lewis Gaddis, Kenneth Pomeranz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- TGNP gender seminar series
- Seminar series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- Social evolution.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Complexity (Philosophy).
- Interdisciplinary research.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- History, big history, and metahistory
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico : SFI Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- A single historical continuum / David Christian
- A paleontological look at history / Douglas H. Erwin
- War, peace, & everything : thoughts on Tolstoy / John Lewis Gaddis
- Regularities in human affairs / Murray Gell-Mann
- Metahistory's dangerous dream / Geoffrey G. Harpham
- The star gazer and the flesh eater: elements of a theory of metahistory / David C. Krakauer
- Homogeneity, heterogeneinty, pigs & pandas in human history / J.R. McNeill
- Labeling and analyzing historical phenomena: some preliminary challenges / Kenneth Pomeranz
- Complexity in big history / Fred Spier
- Toward cliodynamics - an analytical, predictive science of history / Peter Turchin
- A historical conspiracy: competition, opportunity, & the emergence of direction in history / Geerat J. Vermeij
- Can there be a quantitative theory for the history of life & society? / Geoffrey B. West.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Container of: Christian, David, 1946- Single historical continuum.
- ISBN:
- 9781947864023
- 1947864025
- OCLC:
- 1007851892
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