Figuring Out The Past

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext The numbers that tell the story of humanity. Vorwort The numbers that tell the story of humanity Zusammenfassung What was the tallest building of the ancient world? Or the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? 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. Radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer draw on their own Seshat project - a staggeringly ambitious log of demographic and econometric information for every society that has ever existed - to find the large-scale patterns in Figuring Out the Past. Join them now for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Hoyer, Daniel Hoyer, Pete Turchin, Peter Turchin
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2020
• EAN: 9781788161923
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-192-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 30 mm
• Series: The Economist; THE ECONOMIST
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Statistics, History and Archaeology, Economics, finance, business and management