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Figuring Out The Past
- A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Engelsk Paperback
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Figuring Out The Past
- A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Engelsk Paperback

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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 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781788161930
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1788161939
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Udg. Dato:
3 nov 2022
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
128mm
Forlag:
Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
3 nov 2022
Forfatter(e):
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