Documents That Changed the Way We Live

ISBN-13: 9781538100332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 296 str.

Joseph Janes

Opis

Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories that describe these documents; their creation, motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends. These documents include the following: --Exaltation of Innana, - a Sumerian hymn composed c. 2300 BCE by the high priestess Enheduanna, likely the first known author...of anything -Liber Abaci, the 1202 book by Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonnaci, which laid out the number system we still use, and in particular introduced the zero to the West -The -He has waged cruel war...- passage on slavery, deleted from the Declaration of Independence -The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an early 20th century anti-Semitic tract published in Russia that in part laid the intellectual groundwork for the Holocaust -The poorly designed Palm Beach County -butterfly ballot, - on which the 2000 U.S. presidential election may have hinged