Waves of Global Change: A Holistic World History - Second Edition

Waves of Global Change: A Holistic World History uses a groundbreaking, "big picture" approach that spans a broad sweep of time from the big bang to the present. The overarching development of humans through time and space organizes this world history into five major transformations or critical turning points called waves-communal, agricultural, urban, modern, and global. Each wave is holistic, meaning that it has distinctive cultural patterns - currents - that interact and reinforce each other. Using a transdisciplinary approach, the five currents of human activity - ecosystem, techno-economic, social, political, and cultural - are repeated in each wave.