The Uncertain Past : Probability in Ancient History

Name: The Uncertain Past
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009100656
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9781009100656

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1009100653

ISBN-13 9781009100656

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 1st, 2022

Print length 322 Pages

Weight 696 grams

Dimensions 17.50 x 25.20 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: History: theory & methods European history Ancient history: to c 500 CE History: theory and methods Ancient history European history

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Introduces historians of pre-modern periods to a powerful, probability-based approach to uncertainty, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. Showcases how these practices can be applied to a wide range of problems in ancient history, whilst a substantial introduction explains the method.

Historians constantly wrestle with uncertainty, never more so than when attempting quantification, yet the field has given little attention to the nature of uncertainty and strategies for managing it. This volume proposes a powerful new approach to uncertainty in ancient history, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. It shows how probability-based techniques used to manage uncertainty about the future or the present can be applied to uncertainty about the past. A substantial introduction explains the use of probability to represent uncertainty. The chapters that follow showcase how the technique can offer leverage on a wide range of problems in ancient history, from the incidence of expropriation in the Classical Greek world to the money supply of the Roman empire.

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