Permissions Acknowledgments

Permissions Acknowledgments

Adapted with permission by the publisher from Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian, copyright © 2004 The Regents of the University of California for University of California Press. For ordering information, see the publisher’s website (www.ucpress.edu) or Amazon.com.

Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Evolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 139.

Global GDP: 1500–1998: Based on Table B-18: World GDP, 20 Countries and Regional Totals, 0–1998 A.D., The World Economy: Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective and Volume 2: Historical Statistics, © OECD 2006.

Global GDP per capita 1500–1998: Based on Table B-21: World GDP per Capita, 20 Countries and Regional Averages, 0–1998 A.D., The World Economy: Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective and Volume 2: Historical Statistics, © OECD 2006.

Global Population Growth: 1500–1998: Based on Table B-10: World Population, 20 Countries and Regional Totals, 0–1998 A.D., The World Economy: Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective and Volume 2: Historical Statistics, © OECD 2006.

Jean-Noël Biraben, “Essai sur le’évolution du nombre des homes,” Population (No. 34, 1979), pp.13–25.

Jennifer Isaacs, ed., Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History (Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 2005), pp. 49, 51.

Ratio of Wealth in World’s Richest Countries and Poorest Countries for years 1913 and 1992 based on data from Monitoring the World Economy: 1820/1992, © OECD 1995.

“Table 12.1 The Measure of the Twentieth Century,” from Something New Under the Sun by J. R. McNeill. Copyright © 2000 by J.R. McNeill. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.