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Figuring Out The Past

By Peter Turchin

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Figuring Out The Past

By Peter Turchin

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2021-11-01
Publication Date:
2022-03-31
Publisher:
Profile Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1788161939
ISBN13:
9781788161930
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
225 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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