3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Australian-American historian at Macquarie University who founded Big History — a discipline that combines cosmology, geology, biology, and human history into a single 13.8-billion-year narrative — and wrote Maps of Time and Origin Story.
Jared Diamond's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning account — arguing that Eurasian civilizations came to dominate the world because of geographic advantages (domesticable crops and animals, east-west axis allowing diffusion, resulting crowd disease immunity) not racial superiority — the foundational text of big history.
Yuval Noah Harari's 2011 (English 2014) grand history of Homo sapiens — tracing the cognitive, agricultural, and scientific revolutions in a single accessible narrative — the best-selling popular history of the last decade.