Tag: History
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian
If Adam Smith was wrong to see capitalism as human nature manifest, then Beckert overcorrects by presenting it as anti-human: a “rogue artificial intelligence”, an invasive species, an alien force, a supernatural hunger. It is insatiable and unkillable. Beckert calls his book an “actor-centred history” about a phenomenon “made by people”, but it is ultimately…
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A Visualization of the Evolution of Paris, 300 BCE to 2025
A Visualization of the Evolution of Paris, 300 BCE to 2025 — Read on kottke.org/26/01/a-visualization-of-the-evolution-of-paris-300-bce-to-2025
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How Did Cartographers Create World Maps before Airplanes and Satellites? An Introduction | Open Culture
Unlike innovations today, which we expect to solve problems near-immediately, the innovations in mapping technology took many centuries and required the work of thousands of travelers, geographers, cartographers, mathematicians, historians, and other scholars who built upon the work that came before. It started with speculation, myth, and pure fantasy, which is what we find in…