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Mortimer, Ian, 1967- author.
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Civilization -- History.
Social change -- History.
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Millennium : from re...
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Millennium : from religion to revolution : how civilization has changed over a thousand years / Ian Mortimer.
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Mortimer, Ian, 1967- author.
Subjects
Civilization -- History.
Social change -- History.
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9781681772431
1681772434
Description:
403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Contents:
1001-1100: the eleventh century. The growth of the Western Church ; Peace ; The discontinuation of slavery ; Structural engineering -- 1101-1200: the twelfth century. Population growth ; The expansion of the monastic network ; The intellectual renaissance ; Medicine ; The rule of law -- 1201-1300: the thirteenth century. Commerce ; Education ; Accountability ; Friars ; Travel -- 1301-1400: the fourteenth century. The Black Death ; Projectile warfare ; Nationalism ; Vernacular languages -- 1401-1500: the fifteenth century. The age of discovery ; Measuring time ; Individualism ; Realism and Renaissance naturalism -- 1501-1600: the sixteenth century. Printed books and literacy ; The Reformation ; Firearms ; The decline of private violence ; The foundation of European empires -- 1601-1700: the seventeenth century. The Scientific Revolution ; The Medical Revolution ; Settlement of the world ; The social contract ; Rise of the middle classes -- 1701-1800: the eighteenth century. Transport and communications ; The Agricultural Revolution ; Enlightenment liberalism ; Economic theory ; The Industrial Revolution ; Political revolution -- 1801-1900: the nineteenth century. Population growth and urbanisation ; Transport ; Communications ; Public health and sanitation ; Photography ; Social reform -- 1901-2000: the twentieth century. Transport ; War ; Life expectancy ; The media ; Electrical and electronic appliances ; The invention of the future -- Which century saw the most change? Stability and change ; A scale of needs ; Social change in relation to the scale of needs ; The end of history? ; The principal agent of change -- Envoi: Why it matters.
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