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...a series informed by ideas around 'big history', David Christian's notion that we should look for common themes and patterns .....
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Prof Christian ... left for San Diego in 2001 but returned to Macquarie in 2009.
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...As R. E. F. Smith and David Christian showed in 1984, in Bread and Salt, even dairy products were generally used as seasoning.....
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...David Christian is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, but since the 1980s he has become interested in world history on very large scales.
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...Today, however, there are many signs of a return to universal history...
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...Christian has written a history of Wellsian scale, travelling from the physics of the Big Bang to our current nuclear age...
