Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics - Couverture souple

Turchin, Peter; Hoyer, Daniel

 
9781788161930: Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
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ISBN 10 : 1788161939 ISBN 13 : 9781788161930
Editeur : Economist Books, 2022

Synopsis

The numbers that tell the story of humanity

'Vital ... If you're thinking about setting up a giant land empire in Asia, you cannot do so without this book ... If only the last Song emperor had had this book by his side, he might have avoided his appalling fate' Dan Snow

What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?

We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. So, join the radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past. Drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log each piece of demographic and econometric information that can be reliably estimated for every society that has ever existed, Figuring Out The Past does more than tell the story of the past: it shows you the large-scale patterns.

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À propos des auteurs

Professor Peter Turchin is the founder of a new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics. He has authored seven books and has published 200 articles, including a dozen in such top journals as Nature, Science, and PNAS.

Dan Hoyer works with Peter Turchin on the Deep Roots of the Modern World, part of the Seshat: Global History Databank Project.

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The numbers that tell the story of humanity

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Éditeur
Economist Books
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1788161939
ISBN 13 
9781788161930
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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9781541762688: Figuring Out the Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1541762681 ISBN 13 :  9781541762688
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2020
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