The structure of big history : from the big bang until today /
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| Author / Creator: | Spier, Fred, 1952- |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c1996. |
| Description: | ix, 113 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2594810 |
Table of Contents:
- I. General approach. Regimes as structuring elements for cosmic, planetary and human history. Human regimes. Inorganic regimes
- II. Human life between micro and macro regimes. Astronomical regimes. Organic and biological regimes
- III. Human cultural regimes. Human ecological regime transformations as the major structuring principle of human history
- IV. Three major ecological regime transformations as structuring principle for human history. The first great ecological regime transformation: the domestication of fire. The gatherer-hunter social regime. Sedentary gatherers and hunters. The second great ecological regime transformation: the transition to an agrarian regime. The evolving agrarian social regime. Agrarian social regime differentiation and development. The third great ecological regime transformation: the transition toward an industrial regime. Social regime transformations. Planetary ecological regime development.