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The science of history in the nineteenth century / William Milligan Sloane -- The conception and methods of history / James Harvey Robinson -- The expansion of Greek history / John Pentland Mahaffy -- Problems in Roman history / Ettore Pais -- A general survey of the history of Asia, with special reference to China and the Far East / Henri Cordier -- Historical development and the present character of the science of history / Karl Gotthart Lamprecht -- The present problems of medieval history / George Burton Adams -- The place of modern history in the perspective of knowledge / John B. Bury -- Historical synthesis / Charles W. Colby -- The relation of American history to other fields of historical study / Edward Gaylord Bourne -- Problems in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Supplementary Papers -- Economic history in relation to kindred sciences / Johannes Evast Conrad -- The present problems in the economic interpretation of history / Simon Nelson Patten -- Bibliography: department of history -- History of law / Emlin McClain -- Characteristics of common law / Nathan Abbott -- The relations of Roman law to the other historical studies / William Hepburn Buckler -- Problems of Roman legal history / Munroe Smith -- The history of the common law / Simeon Eben Baldwin -- The problems of to-day for the history of the common law / John Henry Wigmore -- The new Japanese civil code, as material for the study of comparative jurisprudence / Nobushige Hozumi -- The latest organization of popular suffrage / Alfred Nerincx -- References suggested on the history of law -- Bibliography on the history of law -- Chairman's address / William Eliot Griffis -- The history of religions in the nineteenth century / George Foot Moore -- Fundamental conceptions and methods of the history of religion / Nathaniel Schmidt -- The relations of the religions of ancient India to the science of religion / Hermann Oldenberg -- Brahmanical riddles and the origin of theosophy / Maurice Bloomfield -- Short paper -- The progress of Islamic science in the last three decades / Ignaz Goldziher -- The problems of Muhammadanism / Duncan Black Macdonald -- Old Testament science / James Frederick McCurdy -- The relations of the Old Testament science to the allied departments and to science in general / Karl Ferdinand Reinhard Budde -- Chairman's address / Andrew C. Zenos -- The relations of New Testament science to kindred sciences / Benjamin Wisner Bacon -- The present problems of New Testament study / Ernest DeWitt Burton -- The relations between ecclesiastical and general history / Karl Gustav Adolph Harnack -- The progress of ecclesiastical history, especially ancient, during the nineteenth century / Jean Réville -- Supplementary paper -- Bibliography: history of religion. ; Mode of access: Internet.

My engagement with the social history of the Middle East, as I embarked on graduate studies, coincided with Judith Tucker's lamentation in 1990 that it was a field understudied to the point of being largely ignored. I came to the study of this new region with training in the native history of Canada, which had introduced me to the challenges and rewards of reconstructing the stories of people who had been denied agency in a narrative dominated by European conquest and nation-building.

This essay presents a review article of David Christian's Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Christian's book seeks to discover order since the Big Bang, the formation of the solar system and this planet Earth, the formation of life and its evolution through natural selection to humankind, and human social organization in family and tribe over one hundred thousand years ago, to the Neolithic revolution in agriculture over ten thousand years ago, to the formation of states about five thousand years ago, to the presentÑand onward to the future. This review essay also evaluates Christian's argument, mostly positively, in comparing and contrasting it to those of the few other fellow travelers through Big History.