Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller

David Christian, el creador de la "big history", de la "gran historia" que enlaza la evolución del cosmos, de la vida y de la humanidad para ofrecernos una perspectiva distinta de los grandes problemas del Antropoceno, culmina su obra con este libro realmente único, que discurre desde el big bang, el sistema solar, la aparición de la vida, los dinosaurios, el homo sapiens y los grandes imperios hasta la globalización. Un libro que ha despertado el entusiasmo de lectores como Bill Gates o el físico Carlo Rovelli quien considera esta disciplina "un método espectacular para, a través de...

Este volumen recoge tres trabajos de Eric J. Hobsbawm, el primero de los cuales constituye un auténtico clásico de la historiografía. En la actualidad se considera un hecho probado que la economía europea atraviesa en el siglo XVII una larga fase de recesión. Pero esta recesión tiene características y repercusiones notablemente distintas en diferentes áreas de Europa. En términos generales retroceden el Mediterráneo (la península Ibérica, Italia y Turquía) y el Báltico (Polonia, Dinamarca y la Hansa). Suecia es, junto con Inglaterra y los Países Bajos, una de las naciones...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...