Across the universe
Some historians are thinking big – and they want the rest of us to do likewise. Harriet Marsden reports
In the beginning there was David Christian, a Brooklyn-born teacher and originally a scholar of Russian history. In 1989 he was hired to teach a general history introduction at Macquarie University, Sydney, and developed a multidisciplinary course collaborating with colleagues from other academic fields. He called it “Big History”.
Biology, physics, geology, politics, history, anthropology,