David Christian
Biographic Data
| ID | 156023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Christian |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Christian |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6545-3017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Everywhen
Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History." Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
An Introduction to Seshat
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
Chernobyl
HBO’s 2019 mini-series, Chernobyl, is a powerful reminder of the Chernobyl catastrophe, its human cost and its contemporary relevance. It is also wonderful television; indeed, it received the highe
The big and the small of it
Histories have long been written on a variety of scales. Arguably, all historians shift scales within their works, and some historians have changed scales quite dramatically across their works too. There has been little reflection or discussion, however, on scale shifting in history making, including on why it is done and how it has been received. History theorist Marnie Hughes-Warrington explores the nature and purpose of scale shifting in this …
The Cambridge World History
Volume 1 of The Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical development of the field globally, periodization, divergence and convergence,…
The silk road
I love the Oxford Very Short Introductions. Some provide superb introductions, some superb overviews. The series excels at something that Soviet publishers used to do very well: it gets experts to
Modernity through the Eyes of a Palaeontologist
The word, 'modernity' and the adjective, 'modern,' have been put to so many contradictory uses in recent decades (what is 'postmodern' to some is merely 'modern' to others) that they have been leached of any conceptual energy they may once have possessed.This poses a problem for world historians who would like to argue that historical changes in the last two hundred years or so have been significant on very large scales.Recently, another historic…
An Anthology of Mongolian History’
History and Time
Time is the medium in which history and politics evolve, yet historians and political scientists have devoted limited efforts to understanding it. The familiar notion that time flows regularly, objectively and in a clear direction has severe limitations. Above all, it makes it difficult to understand the huge differences in perceptions of time in different cultural contexts. Norbert Elias argued that time, like money, can be understood as a socia…
Expansion Cycles in Competitive Systems
A Review of Expansions: Competition and Conquest in Europe since the Bronze Age by Axel Kristinsson (Reykjavikur Akademian, 2010)
A Single Historical Continuum
In the middle of the twentieth century our understanding of the past underwent a quiet revolution whose full implications have yet to be integrated into modern historical scholarship. At the heart of the revolution were new chronometric techniques, new ways of dating past events. For the first time, these techniques allowed the construction of reliable chronologies extending back before the first written documents, before even the appearance of t…
Pots are not People’
The Return of Universal History
The prediction defended in this paper is that over the next fifty years we will see a return of the ancient tradition of "universal history"; but this will be a new form of universal history that is global in its practice and scientific in its spirit and methods. Until the end of the nineteenth century, universal history of some kind seems to have been present in most historiographical traditions. Then it vanished as historians became disillusion…
Scales
The issue of scale is extremely important in historical teaching and research, yet historians have not given it the consideration it deserves.2 The issue has certainly not been discussed as much as other familiar topics such as the problem of ‘objectivity’ or ‘how historians use sources’ or whether or not historians can and should make moral judgements.3 Yet no historian interested in world history can ignore the problem of scale, because world h…
Maps of Time
History in the Landscapes of Modern Knowledge
The Land scape of History: How Historians Map the Past. By John Lewis Gaddis
Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History
Modern historiography has not fully appreciated the ecological complexity of the Silk Roads. As a result, it has failed to understand their antiquity, or to grasp their full importance in Eurasian history. The role played by the Silk Roads in exchanging goods, technologies, and ideas between regions of agrarian civilization is well understood. Less well understood is the trans-ecological role of the Silk Roads--the fact that they also exchanged g…
Imperial and Soviet Russia
List of Tables - List of Figures - Introduction - Medieval and Early Modern Times - The Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century - The 'Great Reforms' and the Rise of a Revolutionary Movement - Economic and Social Change before 1914 - The 1905 Revolution - The Final Decade of Tsarist Rule and the February Revolution - 1917 - Civil War and the Origins of a New Social Order - The New Economic Policy - Collectivisation and Industrialisation - …
Classic Russian Cooking
First published in 1861, this bible of Russian homemakers offered not only a compendium of recipes, but also instructions about such matters as setting up a kitchen, managing servants, shopping, and proper winter storage. Joyce Toomre has superbly translated and annotated over 1,000 recipes and has written a thorough and fascinating introduction that discusses the history of Russian cuisine and summarizes Elena Molokhovets' advice on household ma…
The World of the Russian Peasant
The old world and the new in nineteenth-century Russia
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Living Water
Europe
Living Water
Living Water
Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History
Modern historiography has not fully appreciated the ecological complexity of the Silk Roads. As a result, it has failed to understand their antiquity, or to grasp their full importance in Eurasian history. The role played by the Silk Roads in exchanging goods, technologies, and ideas between regions of agrarian civilization is well understood. Less well understood is the trans-ecological role of the Silk Roads--the fact that they also exchanged g…
Bread and Salt
Introduction Part I. The early diet: 1. Farming and gathering: grain and game 2. Salt: a major extractive industry 3. Drink: ale and alchemy Part II. State appetite, peasant diet: 4. Controls and code: the seventeenth century 5. Steppes and counter-measures: the eighteenth century 6. Tea and temperance Part III. Rural diets on the eve of change: 7. The established pattern 8. Tavern and treasury 9. Good time and bad Conclusion Bibliography Index
The 'Senatorial Party' and the Theory of Collegial Government, 1801-1803
The Return of Universal History
The prediction defended in this paper is that over the next fifty years we will see a return of the ancient tradition of "universal history"; but this will be a new form of universal history that is global in its practice and scientific in its spirit and methods. Until the end of the nineteenth century, universal history of some kind seems to have been present in most historiographical traditions. Then it vanished as historians became disillusion…
The big and the small of it
Histories have long been written on a variety of scales. Arguably, all historians shift scales within their works, and some historians have changed scales quite dramatically across their works too. There has been little reflection or discussion, however, on scale shifting in history making, including on why it is done and how it has been received. History theorist Marnie Hughes-Warrington explores the nature and purpose of scale shifting in this …
Pots are not People’
History in the Landscapes of Modern Knowledge
The Land scape of History: How Historians Map the Past. By John Lewis Gaddis
Classic Russian Cooking
First published in 1861, this bible of Russian homemakers offered not only a compendium of recipes, but also instructions about such matters as setting up a kitchen, managing servants, shopping, and proper winter storage. Joyce Toomre has superbly translated and annotated over 1,000 recipes and has written a thorough and fascinating introduction that discusses the history of Russian cuisine and summarizes Elena Molokhovets' advice on household ma…
Accumulation and Accumulators
Vodka and Corruption in Russia on the Eve of Emancipation
Vodka was big business in nineteenth century Russia, was it is in the Soviet Union today. In the 1850s, the total turnover of the trade was at least 200 million rubles, or more than 20 percent of the value of all internal trade. In 1859, the government's share of this huge turnover exceeded 120 million rubles, which accounted for more than 40 percent of all ordinary revenues. As Nikolai Ogarev pointed out, this huge sum was enough to cover most o…
The Political Views of the Unofficial Committee in 1801
The 'Senatorial Party' and the Theory of Collegial Government, 1801-1803
Paul I
The Supervisory Function in Russian and Soviet History
Even a brief survey of the institutional history of Russia and the Soviet Union will show the existence of a remarkable number of institutions and officials whose main function is best described as supervisory. They do not usually legislate or make policy decisions. For the most part they do not execute policy directly or pass legal judgments. Their task is to check that other government officials and institutions are acting in conformity to the …
Bread and Salt
Bread and Salt
Bread and Salt
Introduction Part I. The early diet: 1. Farming and gathering: grain and game 2. Salt: a major extractive industry 3. Drink: ale and alchemy Part II. State appetite, peasant diet: 4. Controls and code: the seventeenth century 5. Steppes and counter-measures: the eighteenth century 6. Tea and temperance Part III. Rural diets on the eve of change: 7. The established pattern 8. Tavern and treasury 9. Good time and bad Conclusion Bibliography Index
Bread and Salt
Vodka and Corruption in Russia on the Eve of Emancipation
Vodka was big business in nineteenth century Russia, was it is in the Soviet Union today. In the 1850s, the total turnover of the trade was at least 200 million rubles, or more than 20 percent of the value of all internal trade. In 1859, the government's share of this huge turnover exceeded 120 million rubles, which accounted for more than 40 percent of all ordinary revenues. As Nikolai Ogarev pointed out, this huge sum was enough to cover most o…
The Russian Civil War
Accumulation and Accumulators
Europe
Living Water
Living Water
Living Water
Classic Russian Cooking
First published in 1861, this bible of Russian homemakers offered not only a compendium of recipes, but also instructions about such matters as setting up a kitchen, managing servants, shopping, and proper winter storage. Joyce Toomre has superbly translated and annotated over 1,000 recipes and has written a thorough and fascinating introduction that discusses the history of Russian cuisine and summarizes Elena Molokhovets' advice on household ma…
The World of the Russian Peasant
The old world and the new in nineteenth-century Russia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Imperial and Soviet Russia
List of Tables - List of Figures - Introduction - Medieval and Early Modern Times - The Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century - The 'Great Reforms' and the Rise of a Revolutionary Movement - Economic and Social Change before 1914 - The 1905 Revolution - The Final Decade of Tsarist Rule and the February Revolution - 1917 - Civil War and the Origins of a New Social Order - The New Economic Policy - Collectivisation and Industrialisation - …
Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History
Modern historiography has not fully appreciated the ecological complexity of the Silk Roads. As a result, it has failed to understand their antiquity, or to grasp their full importance in Eurasian history. The role played by the Silk Roads in exchanging goods, technologies, and ideas between regions of agrarian civilization is well understood. Less well understood is the trans-ecological role of the Silk Roads--the fact that they also exchanged g…
Maps of Time
History in the Landscapes of Modern Knowledge
The Land scape of History: How Historians Map the Past. By John Lewis Gaddis
Scales
The issue of scale is extremely important in historical teaching and research, yet historians have not given it the consideration it deserves.2 The issue has certainly not been discussed as much as other familiar topics such as the problem of ‘objectivity’ or ‘how historians use sources’ or whether or not historians can and should make moral judgements.3 Yet no historian interested in world history can ignore the problem of scale, because world h…
The Return of Universal History
The prediction defended in this paper is that over the next fifty years we will see a return of the ancient tradition of "universal history"; but this will be a new form of universal history that is global in its practice and scientific in its spirit and methods. Until the end of the nineteenth century, universal history of some kind seems to have been present in most historiographical traditions. Then it vanished as historians became disillusion…
History and Time
Time is the medium in which history and politics evolve, yet historians and political scientists have devoted limited efforts to understanding it. The familiar notion that time flows regularly, objectively and in a clear direction has severe limitations. Above all, it makes it difficult to understand the huge differences in perceptions of time in different cultural contexts. Norbert Elias argued that time, like money, can be understood as a socia…
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