Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393324433
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.
Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393324433
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393324433
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.
History of the Hour
Author: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226155110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226155110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
Telling Time
Author: Stuart Sherman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226752761
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226752761
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
Guns, Sails and Empires
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ordnance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ordnance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Before the Industrial Revolution
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134877498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134877498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Guns, Sails and Empires
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897450713
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Guns, Sails and Empires is that rarity among works of history: a short book with a simple, powerful thesis that the entire book is devoted to proving. Carlo Cipolla begins with the question, "Why, after the end of the fifteenth century were the Europeans able not only to force their way through to the distant Spice Islands but also to gain control of all the major sea-routes and to establish overseas empires?" (19) He quickly dismisses motive as a causal factor: motive to circumvent the "Moslem blockade" had existed in earlier centuries as well, but motive without means is empty. Cipolla identifies two developments that provided the means for Europeans to finally succeed beyond their wildest dreams: ships seaworthy enough to reach distant seas; and powerful cannon that could be carried by these ships.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897450713
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Guns, Sails and Empires is that rarity among works of history: a short book with a simple, powerful thesis that the entire book is devoted to proving. Carlo Cipolla begins with the question, "Why, after the end of the fifteenth century were the Europeans able not only to force their way through to the distant Spice Islands but also to gain control of all the major sea-routes and to establish overseas empires?" (19) He quickly dismisses motive as a causal factor: motive to circumvent the "Moslem blockade" had existed in earlier centuries as well, but motive without means is empty. Cipolla identifies two developments that provided the means for Europeans to finally succeed beyond their wildest dreams: ships seaworthy enough to reach distant seas; and powerful cannon that could be carried by these ships.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385546483
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"A masterly book" —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan "A classic" —Simon Kuper, Financial Times An economist explains five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar. It is human stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economic history at the UC Berkeley, created this vitally important book in order to detect and neutralize its threat. Both hilarious and dead serious, it will leave you better equipped to confront political realities, unreasonable colleagues, or your next dinner with your in-laws. The Laws: 1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals among us. 2. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves. 4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. 5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385546483
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"A masterly book" —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan "A classic" —Simon Kuper, Financial Times An economist explains five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar. It is human stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economic history at the UC Berkeley, created this vitally important book in order to detect and neutralize its threat. Both hilarious and dead serious, it will leave you better equipped to confront political realities, unreasonable colleagues, or your next dinner with your in-laws. The Laws: 1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals among us. 2. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves. 4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. 5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time
Author: Christine McCourt
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857455427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth: how women, midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control, but also actively attempt to change established forms of thinking and practice. The stories are engaging as well as critical and invite the reader to think afresh about time, and about reproduction.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857455427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work. Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings, the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized, marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth: how women, midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control, but also actively attempt to change established forms of thinking and practice. The stories are engaging as well as critical and invite the reader to think afresh about time, and about reproduction.
Power and Time
Author: Dan Edelstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022670601X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022670601X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Time
Author: Diane Owen Hughes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Considers an important dimension in understanding culture
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Considers an important dimension in understanding culture