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<p><b>Professor Peter Turchin</b> is Project Leader at the Complexity Science H... Read More

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<p><b>Professor Peter Turchin</b> is Project Leader at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. He is a founder of a new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics and has authored nine books.<br><b>Dr Dan Hoyer</b> is an historian and social scientist serving as Senior Reseracher and Project Manager of the Seshat: Global History Databank Project. He has been collaborating with Peter Turchin since 2014.</p><p><b>The numbers that tell the story of humanity</b><br><b><br>'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</b><br><br>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?<br><br>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, <i>Figuring Out The Past</i> does more than tell the story of the past: it shows you the large-scale patterns.</p>The numbers that tell the story of humanityVital ... 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

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Title: Figuring Out The Past
Author: Peter Turchin,Daniel Hoyer
SKU: BK0462554
EAN: 9781788161930
Language: English
Binding: Paperback

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<b>Professor Peter Turchin</b> 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 <i>Nature, Science</i>, and <i>PNAS</i>.<b> </b>,<b>Dan Hoyer</b> works with Peter Turchin on the Deep Roots of the Modern World, part of the Seshat: Global History Databank Project.

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