Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer

Figuring Out The Past

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 SnowWhat 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.

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 SnowWhat 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.

Nyelv angol
Kiadó Profile Books Ltd
Oldalak száma 272
Kötés típusa Paperback / softback
Súly (g) 220 g
Méretek (Sz-M-H) 128 x 198 x 20
EAN 9781788161930
Szállítási idő Nem elérhető


További termékek a kategóriából:


Légy jó mindhalálig - Talentum diákkönyvtár (új kiadás)
-9%
Móricz Zsigmond
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
5,55 €
5,06 €
Rossz kor - Francesca története - A Bridgerton család 6. (új kiadás)
-9%
Julia Quinn
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
12,75 €
11,61 €
Lingea svéd társalgás /Szótárral és nyelvtani áttekintéssel
Nyelvkönyv
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
13,10 €
Büszkeség és balítélet - Örök kedvencek
-9%
Jane Austen
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
14,70 €
13,38 €
Légy jó mindhalálig
-9%
Móricz Zsigmond
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
8,20 €
7,47 €
Birthday Girl - A szülinapos lány
-9%
Penelope Douglas
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
15,05 €
13,70 €
One Of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
12,95 €
Hogyan éljünk izlandiul
-9%
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir
Szállítási idő
online ár - Készleten - 1 munkanap
22,20 €
20,21 €