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Author : Stephen Blaha
Release : 2002-08
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 572/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Rhythms of History by : Stephen Blaha
Download or read book The Rhythms of History written by Stephen Blaha. This book was released on 2002-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rhythms of History" presents a quantitative theory of civilizations supported by the data in Toynbee's classic 12-volume "A Study of History."
Author : David M Henkin
Release : 2021-11-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 066/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Week by : David M Henkin
Download or read book The Week written by David M Henkin. This book was released on 2021-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world. With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources—including newspapers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, courtroom testimony, and diaries—David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. Reconstructing how weekly patterns insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans, Henkin argues that the week is more than just a regimen of rest days or breaks from work, but a dominant organizational principle of modern society. Ultimately, the seven-day week shapes our understanding and experience of time.
Author : William Strauss
Release : 1997-12-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 464/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fourth Turning by : William Strauss
Download or read book The Fourth Turning written by William Strauss. This book was released on 1997-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
Author : Arthur Osborne
Release : 1959
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Rhythm of History by : Arthur Osborne
Download or read book The Rhythm of History written by Arthur Osborne. This book was released on 1959. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Charles Chasteen
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 417/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis National Rhythms, African Roots by : John Charles Chasteen
Download or read book National Rhythms, African Roots written by John Charles Chasteen. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races together in Latin America.
