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Figuring out the Past, A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
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Figuring out the Past, A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics

Authors: Peter Turchin,Daniel Hoyer

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 ...

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 ...

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  • Year of publication Year of publication 2022
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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.

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Authors
Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer
Publisher
Profile
Language
English
Subtitle
A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
272
Release Date
11/2022
Publication Date
2022
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12.6x19.6 cm
ISBN-13
9781788161930

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