Four Thousand Years Ago
Author | : Geoffrey Bibby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9781258183110 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Bibby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9781258183110 |
Author | : Manuel De Landa |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0942299922 |
Following in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while engaging — in an entirely unprecedented manner — the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history merely as the arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is an entirely novel approach to the study of human societies and their always mobile, semi-stable forms, cities, economies, technologies, and languages. De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In each case, De Landa discloses the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress and, even more important, free of any deterministic source for its urban, institutional, and technological forms. The source of all concrete forms in the West’s history, rather, is shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter—energy itself. A Swerve Edition.
Author | : Robert Lacey |
Publisher | : Abacus (UK) |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780349113067 |
THE YEAR 1000 is a vivid evocation of how English people lived a thousand years ago - no spinach, sugar or Caesarean operations in which the mother had any chance of survival, but a world that knew brain surgeons, property developers and, yes, even the occasional gossip columnist. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, Lacey and Danziger interviewed the leading historians and archaeologists in their field. In the year 1000 the changing seasons shaped a life that was, by our standards, both soothingly quiet and frighteningly hazardous - and if you survived, you could expect to grow to just about the same height and stature as anyone living today. This exuberant and informative book concludes as the shadow of the millennium descends across England and Christendom, with prophets of doom invoking the spectre of the Anti-Christ. Here comes the abacus - the medieval calculating machine - along with bewildering new concepts like infinity and zero. These are portents of the future, and THE YEAR 1000 finishes by examining the human and social ingredients that were to make for survival and success in the next thousand years.
Author | : Charles A. Frazee |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802848055 |
The story of Jesus dominates the history of the first century AD in the Near East, but what was happening elsewhere at this time? This book puts the life of Jesus and the events associated with him within a world context, not in terms of Jesus' world influence, which did not exist at this time, but purely as a means of interesting comparison.
Author | : Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : World history |
ISBN | : 9780552994828 |
Traces the progress and regress of the world's civilizations over the past thousand years and shows how the capacity of one people to influence another has shifted geographically.
Author | : Timothy A. Kohler |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816537747 |
"Field-defining research that will set the standard for understanding inequality in archaeological contexts"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Anita Ganeri |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : World history |
ISBN | : 9780752530482 |
Readable text and rich illustrations combine to provide an informative look at the last millennium.
Author | : Patricia Fara |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 2010-02-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0191655570 |
Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and some women) who needed to earn their living, who made mistakes, and who trampled down their rivals in their quest for success. Fara sweeps through the centuries, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, illuminating the financial interests, imperial ambitions, and publishing enterprises that have made science the powerful global phenomenon that it is today. She also ranges internationally, illustrating the importance of scientific projects based around the world, from China to the Islamic empire, as well as the more familiar tale of science in Europe, from Copernicus to Charles Darwin and beyond. Above all, this four thousand year history challenges scientific supremacy, arguing controversially that science is successful not because it is always right - but because people have said that it is right.
Author | : Jack Hartnell |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178283270X |
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.
Author | : Derek Wilson |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2019-12-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781670264671 |
This is a comprehensive account of East African history from AD 1000 to modern times. The text deals with the origins and movements of the peoples of East Africa and the development settled kingdoms in the interior and cities at the coast; the advent of the Portuguese and later the Omanis; the Europeans, the Partition, and the settlers; the World Wars and the struggle for Independence, and finally the recent history of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.