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Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of 'big history' are calling for a reassessment of long-held assumptions about the very definition of history, its methods, and its evidentiary base. Elena Aronova maps out the submerged history of historians' continuous engagement with the methods, tools, and values of the natural sciences by examining several waves of experimentation with the scale of history and its method, each of which surged highest at perceived times of trouble, from the crisis-ridden decades of the early 20th century to the ruptures of the Cold War.

Science --- Historiography --- History --- Methodology --- Annales school. --- Big History. --- Russia as method. --- historiography. --- history of science. --- scientific history.