David Christian

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David Christian is affiliated with the following schools: University of Western Ontario, University of Oxford, San Diego State University, Macquarie University

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According to Wikipedia, David Gilbert Christian , a historian and scholar of Russian history, has become notable for teaching and promoting the emerging discipline of Big History. In 1989 he began teaching the first course on the topic, examining history from the Big Bang to the present using a multidisciplinary approach with the assistance of scholars in diverse specializations from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Big History frames human history in terms of cosmic, geological, and biological history. Christian is credited with coining the term Big History and he serves as president of the International Big History Association. Christian's best-selling Teaching Company course entitled Big History caught the attention of philanthropist Bill Gates, who is funding Christian's efforts to develop a program to bring the course to secondary-school students worldwide.

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Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History (2000) (256)
The Case for "Big History.". (1991) (104)
The Russian Civil War (1989) (60)
Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia (1984) (54)
Big history : between nothing and everything (2013) (53)
The Return of universal history (2010) (49)
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (2018) (48)
Inner Eurasia from prehistory to the Mongol Empire (2000) (48)
Inner Eurasia as a unit of world history (1994) (44)
World History in Context (2003) (32)
Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation. (1990) (29)
:The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (2003) (28)
What is Big History (2017) (27)
Macrohistory: the play of scales (2005) (18)
Big History : The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity (2008) (18)
This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity (2007) (15)
Realms of the Silk Roads : ancient and modern : proceedings from the Third Conference of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies (A.S.I.A.S.), Macquarie University, September 21-22, 1998 (1998) (15)
Big History Project (2011) (14)
The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade 1550-1900 (review) (2003) (13)
The economics and politics of U.S. sugar policy. (1993) (10)
Swiming upstream : universal Darwinism and human history (2014) (9)
A Big History of Globalization (2019) (9)
Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege, and the Challenge of Modernity (1997) (8)
Prohibition in Russia, 1914-1925 (1995) (8)
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume II: Inner Eurasia from the Mongol Empire to Today, 1260 - 2000 (2018) (8)
An Introduction to Seshat (2019) (8)
A Single Historical Continuum (2011) (7)
TED Talk: The history of our world in 18 minutes (2011) (6)
The Evolutionary epic and the chronometric revolution (2009) (6)
World Environmental History (2012) (5)
The Longest Durée: a history of the last 15 billion years (1989) (5)
HISTORY AND SCIENCE AFTER THE CHRONOMETRIC REVOLUTION (2009) (5)
History and time (2011) (5)
Crafting a New Narrative to Support Sustainability (2013) (5)
Medieval and Early Modern Times (1997) (4)
The 'Senatorial Party' and the Theory of Collegial Government, 1801-1803 (1979) (4)
Science in the mirror of "big history" (2002) (4)
Imperial rivals: China, Russia, and their disputed frontier (1997) (4)
History in the Landscapes of Modern Knowledge (2004) (4)
Labour in a non-capitalist economy: the Soviet counter-example (1985) (4)
The First “Golden Age” of Globalization (1870–1914) (2019) (3)
Vodka and Corruption in Russia on the Eve of Emancipation (1987) (3)
State Formation in the Inner Eurasian Steppes (1998) (3)
Traditional and Modern Drinking Cultures (1990) (2)
The big and the small of it: a conversation on the scales of history between David Christian, Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Marnie Hughes-Warrington (2019) (2)
Traditional and modern drinking cultures in Russia on the eve of emancipation (1987) (2)
"Complexity, energy and information in Big History and human history" (2017) (2)
The Supervisory Function in Russian and Soviet History (1982) (2)
Power and privilege: the Russian empire, the Soviet Union and the challenge of modernity (1994) (2)
Globalization: A Short History By Jürgen Osterhammel and Neils P. Petersson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 182. £14.95. ISBN 0 691 12165 6 (2006) (2)
Bridging the Two Cultures: History, Big History, and Science (2005) (2)
The World of the Russian Peasant: Post-Emancipation Culture and Society. Ben Eklof , Stephen FrankPeasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period. Christine D. Worobec (1994) (2)
The Kaghanate of the Rus’: Non-Slavic Sources of Russian Statehood (2002) (2)
The evolution of world histories (2015) (2)
Introducing world history, to 10,000 BCE (2015) (2)
The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of Australasia (2015) (2)
Mapping world history: report on the World History Research Agenda Symposium (2008) (2)
Big History meets Minimal English (2018) (1)
An anthology of Mongolian history (2012) (1)
Accumulation and accumulators: the metaphor Marx muffed (1990) (1)
Belief, knowledge, and language (2015) (1)
“The keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge:” Big History, Cosmic Evolution, and New Research Agendas (2019) (1)
Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland: The Great Transition to Planetary Civilization (2018) (1)
Progress: Directionality or Betterment? (2012) (1)
Marat Durdyiev and Turkmen nationalism (1995) (1)
The Cambridge world history: Volume 1: Introducing world history, to 10,000 BCE (2015) (1)
A neglected great reform: the abolition of tax farming in Russia (1994) (1)
Foreword: celebrating the birth of a new creation story (2009) (1)
History and global identity (2004) (1)
Big history : the longest 'durée' (2009) (1)
I. EVOLUTION AND UNDERSTANDING OF BIG HISTORY 1 The Evolution of Big History: A Short Introduction (2011) (1)
Review of Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland: The Great Transition to Planetary Civilization (2018) (1)
The silk road: a very short introduction (2014) (1)
Archaic Globalization: The Birth of the World-System (2019) (1)
Cosmology and the Environment (2015) (1)
Asian Palaeolithic dispersals (2015) (1)
Migration and innovation in palaeolithic europe (2015) (1)
Chernobyl: re-creating a nuclear tragedy (2019) (1)
WHY GLOBAL HISTORY (2009) (1)
What's the use of "big history"? (2009) (1)
Big history and the future of humanity By Fred Spier. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xv + 272. Hardback £75.00, ISBN 978-1-4443-3421-0. (2011) (1)
Chapter 8. The Black and the Gold Seals: Popular Protests Against the Liquor Trade on the Eve of Emancipation (1991) (1)
Obesity Management: A Meta-Analysis of Key Factors (1989) (1)
Anthropocene epoch [encyclopaedia entry] (2012) (0)
Part IV. The Holocene: Few Worlds (2019) (0)
Vodka before the Nineteenth Century (1990) (0)
Fighting the Good Fight: Methods for Effectively Dealing with Insurance (2013) (0)
Modern Globalization: Global Technological and Economic Transformations in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2019) (0)
Power And Privilege: Russia And The Soviet Union In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries (1987) (0)
Collective learning [encyclopaedia entry] (2012) (0)
Book review : 'Wood : a history' (2013) (0)
The Russian Moment in World History. By Marshall T. Poe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xviii, 116 pp. Notes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Maps. $17.95, hard bound. (2004) (0)
Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia (review) (2011) (0)
Expansion cycles in competitive systems (2011) (0)
The Great Patriotic War (1997) (0)
The Silk Road in world history (2002) (0)
The Early Modern Period: Emerging Global Processes and Institutions (2019) (0)
‘Killing the Hundred-Headed Hydra’: The Abolition of Tax Farming (1990) (0)
Maxine Berg: Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century (2015) (0)
Part VI. Perspectives on the Future (2019) (0)
Big history [encyclopaedia entry] (2007) (0)
Nikolai M. Dronin, Edward G. Bellinger. Climate Dependence and Food Problems in Russia 1900–1990: The Interaction of Climate and Agricultural Policy and Their Effect on Food Problems. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 366. $45.95 (2006) (0)
The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy, and: Mughal India and Central Asia (review) (2001) (0)
Periodization overview [encyclopaedia entry] (2005) (0)
Book review : Modernity through the eyes of a paleontologist (2013) (0)
Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (1992) (0)
Evolution, rupture, and periodization (2015) (0)
Part I. The Inanimate Universe (2019) (0)
Selling Vodka: Taverns and Tavernkeepers (1990) (0)
Before the farmers: culture and climate from the emergence of Homo sapiens to about ten thousand years Ago (2015) (0)
Is anyone in charge of this thing (2015) (0)
The old world and the new in nineteenth-century Russia (1994) (0)
The Political Views of the Unofficial Committee in 1801: Some New Evidence (1978) (0)
Inner Eurasia [encyclopaedia entry] (2005) (0)
Afro-Eurasia in geological time (2008) (0)
Expansion Cycles in Competitive Systems: A Review of Expansions by Axel Kristinsson (2011) (0)
Imperial and Soviet Russia (1997) (0)
The 1905 Revolution (1997) (0)
Modernity through the Eyes of a Palaeontologist (2013) (0)
The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of the Americas (2015) (0)
Economic and Social Change Before 1914 (1997) (0)
Part III. Early Human History: Many Worlds (2019) (0)
An Interview for Scottish teachers of big history (2012) (0)
What is big history? 1 (2019) (0)
INTRODUCTION: A MODERN CREATION MYTH? (2019) (0)
A Planet-changing species: humans in the Anthropocene (2014) (0)
World history, the big eras: a compact history of humankind for teachers and students (2011) (0)
1. The First 300,000 Years: Origins of the Universe, Time, and Space (2020) (0)
Climate change and big history (2012) (0)
Big history: why we need to teach the modern origin story (2012) (0)
‘Pots are not People’: Recent Books on the Archaeology and History of Central Eurasia (2011) (0)
The great emergence: modernity as an emergent property of homo sapiens (2011) (0)
Introduction: Globalization Context (2019) (0)
Early Modern Globalization and World Dynamics: Global Growth, Global Crisis, and Global Divergence (2019) (0)
Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900–1929. By Laura L. Phillips. Russian Studies Series. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. Pp. viii+212. $38.00. (2002) (0)
Why we need a modern origin story today (2019) (0)
Perestroika and the End of the Soviet Experiment, 1982 to 1991 (1997) (0)
Wood: a history (2013) (0)
We need a modern origin story: a big history (2015) (0)
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (review) (2007) (0)
Paul I: A Reassessment of His Life and Reign. Series in Russian and East European Studies, No. 2 (1981) (0)
Working Class Protest: Smashing Taverns (1990) (0)
In Search of the True West: Culture, Economies, and Problems of Russian Development (2000) (0)
The ‘Great Reforms’ and the Rise of a Revolutionary Movement (1997) (0)
Big History: Connecting Knowledge (2015) (0)
Civil War and the Origins of a New Social Order (1997) (0)
Global Sociocultural Transformations of the Nineteenth Century (2019) (0)
Big history for the era of climate change (2012) (0)
The Green Serpent : Vodka, Marx and primitive accumulation (2013) (0)
Connexin 36 as a Regulator of Consummatory Behaviour (2014) (0)
The world: a history By Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007. Pp. xlviii + 1056 + appendices (59 pp). Hardback $126.20, ISBN 978-0-13-113499-7 (2008) (0)
What is a good life (2013) (0)
Science overview [encyclopaedia entry] (2005) (0)
'A Single reckoning of past events' : the evolution of big history (2010) (0)
Selling Vodka: The Tax Farm—Structure, Metabolism, and Ecology (1990) (0)
Religion and Belief Systems in World History (2012) (0)
Letters From the Silk Roads: Thinking at the Crossroads of Civilization (2000) (0)
VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY TROTSKY (2013) (0)
Part V. The Modern Era: One World (2019) (0)
Stepping Outside the Scholarly Comfort Zone (2010) (0)
Selling Vodka: The Tax Farmers (1990) (0)
Climate change and the course of global history: a rough journey By John L. Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxi+631. Hardback £65.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87164-8; paperback £22.99, ISBN 978-0-521-69218-2 (2015) (0)
Book review : [These] days are days of shaking and this shaking is universal . (2014) (0)
Universe, Origins of (2005) (0)
Reforming the Stalinist System, 1953 to 1964 (1997) (0)
The Stalinist Political Order (1997) (0)
Globalization in world history (2010) (0)
Global Dynamics 1–1800 ce: Trends and Cycles (2019) (0)
Part II. Life on Earth (2019) (0)
Tsarist Russia in the context of world History (2002) (0)
Appendix 1. Dating Techniques, Chronologies, and Timelines (2019) (0)
The Final Decade of Tsarist Rule and the February Revolution (1997) (0)
The Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century (1997) (0)
Epilogue: After 2000: The End of Inner Eurasia? (2017) (0)
Introduction: Big History Context (2019) (0)
The land called holy: Palestine in Christian history and thought (1996) (0)
Hierarchy and heterarchy in world history (2004) (0)
Proto-modern and Early Modern Globalization: How Was The Global World Born? (2019) (0)
A science-based origin story for a planet-changing species: "Big History" can help humans understand our growing powers and responsibilities (2019) (0)
The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (2004) (0)
Book review : 'The silk road : a very short introduction' (2014) (0)
Upper Class Protest—Press Attacks on the Tax Farm (1990) (0)
Art in World History (2011) (0)
The New Economic Policy (1997) (0)
Innovation and Human History (2008) (0)
The Anthropocene Epoch: the background to two transformative centuries (2019) (0)
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (review) (2001) (0)
Life along the Silk Road, and: A History of Inner Asia (review) (2002) (0)
Working Class Protest: Boycotting Vodka (1990) (0)
Taxing Vodka—The Government's Share (1990) (0)
Conclusion: The Big History of Globalization Told in Ten Pages (2019) (0)
The reform of the Russian Senate, 1801-1803 (1974) (0)
Consolidation, Stagnation and Change, 1964 to 1982 (1997) (0)
Collectivization and Industrilization (1997) (0)
Silk Roads [encyclopaedia entry] (2005) (0)
From Mapping to Meaning (2016) (0)
The Rise of Pastoralism in Eurasia: c. 4,000 BC to c. 1,000 BC (1999) (0)
Making Vodka—The Nobility's Share (1990) (0)
Preface to the 2011 Edition (2019) (0)
Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia . By Robert P. Geraci. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xviii, 389 pp. $54.50 (cloth). (2003) (0)
From ( Anti-) Imperialism to ( Counter-) Emperialism by Nigel (2007) (0)
Population growth as engine of history [encyclopaedia entry] (2005) (0)

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