David Christian
David Christian is a TED speaker who has written 6 quality-verified books, paired here with their talk.
David Christian is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, but since the 1980s he has become interested in world history on very large scales. He has written on the social and material history of the 19th-century Russian peasantry, in particular on aspects of diet and the role of alcohol. In 1989, he began teaching courses on "Big History," surveying the past on the largest possible scales, including those of biology and astronomy.Christian is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Over the next few years he will also be working with the support of Bill Gates to create an online course in "Big History" for high school students. Watch the Big History series on H2 >>
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What books has David Christian written?
David Christian has written 6 books in the Books Worth Reading catalogue: "Power and Privilege", "Big History", "Imperial and Soviet Russia", "A Big History of Globalization", "Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History", "This Fleeting World". Each is quality-verified and paired with their TED talk.
What does David Christian write about?
David Christian's books on Books Worth Reading cover History.
What is David Christian known for?
David Christian's distinctive intellectual contribution lies in his pioneering development of "Big History," a framework that fundamentally reimagines how we understand the human past by placing it within the vastness of cosmic and planetary history. Beginning as a specialist in Russian and Soviet h...
What is David Christian's TED talk?
David Christian's TED talk is "The history of our world in 18 minutes" (2011). It is paired with their books on Books Worth Reading.