《Figuring Out the Past》是2020年The Economist出版的圖書，作者是Peter Turchin、Daniel Hoyer。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Figuring Out the Past
- 作者：Peter Turchin、Daniel Hoyer
- 出版社：The Economist
- ISBN：9781541762688
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Discover the world records that define our history and jump headfirst into the past using scientific data that reveals accurate and insightful answers to life’s biggest questions.
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the plumbing like in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in the Mughal Empire? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ever ritual human sacrifice?
We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: cast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies.
作者簡介
Peter Turchin is an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, and group leader of Social Complexity and Collapse at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. He is the founder of Seshat: Global History Databank.
Daniel Hoyer is a historical social-scientist and project manager of Seshat: Global History Databank. His current work uses quantitative and theory-driven methods to identify trends in global history.
