Social Evolution & History. Volume4, Number 1. Международный журнал

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Contents

Articles:

Editor's Preface………………………………………………………..….5

Marnie Hughes-Warrington

Big History……………………………………………………………….7

David Christian

Macrohistory: The Play of Scales……………………………………....22

Akop P. Nazaretyan

Big (Universal) History Paradigm: Versions and Approaches….….....61

Fred Spier

How Big History Works:

Energy Flows and the Rise and Demise of Complexity…………...…...87

Robert L. Carneiro

Stellar Evolution and Social Evolution:

A Study in Parallel Processes………………………………..………....136

Graeme Donald Snooks

Big History or Big Theory?

Uncovering the Laws of Life…………………….…………………...160

Conference Report

Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Oleg I. Kavykin

Third International Conference

‘Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations’

(Moscow, June 18–21, 2004)……………………….…………………189