Millennium : from religion to revolution : how civilization has changed over a thousand years / Ian Mortimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mortimer, Ian, 1967- author.

Standardized Title:

Centuries of change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

History.

Social change--History.

Social change.

Physical Description:

403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.

Summary:

"History's greatest tour guide--Ian Mortimer--takes us on an eye-opening and expansive journey through the last millennium of human innovation"--Front jacket flap.

"We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, women's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition. ln Millennium, bestselling historian Ian Mortimer takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the last ten centuries of Western history. It is a journey into a past vividly brought to life--and bursting with ideas--that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which century saw the greatest change. We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burned to the ground by invaders--and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer--to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilizations came into conflict with each other on an epic scale. Here is a story of brilliant scientists, fearless adventurers, cold-hearted entrepreneurs, and strong-minded women--a story of discovery, invention, revolution, and cataclysmic shifts in perspective. Millennium is a journey into the past like no other. Our understanding of human development will never be the same again."--Jacket flap.

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.

Notes:

Originally published: Centuries of change -- London : The Bodley Head, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-377) and index.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: 9781847923035 Mortimer, Ian, 1967- London : The Bodley Head, 2014

ISBN:

9781681772431

1681772434

OCLC:

940362359

Publisher Number:

99969972856