{"id":156,"date":"2018-03-29T22:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2018-08-27T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T23:03:51","slug":"156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Publication: Navigating the Currents of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Publication<\/h3>\n<p>This piece is part of a forum on <a href=\"http:\/\/worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu\/15.1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Organizing World History<\/a>\u00a0in World History Connected organized by Rick\u00a0Szostak of the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu\/15.1\/forum_ciotola.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Navigating the Currents of History<\/a>&#8221; (<i>World History Connected<\/i>, University of Illinois Press, February 2018) represents an attempt to create a generic, but unified conceptual language to describe a broad range of phenomena, ranging from history to the geosciences. The goal such an effort is to make it easier to compare diverse phenomena to recognize similarities and also to develop a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles that unify these diverse areas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_157\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chinese_Dynasty_Duration_01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-image-157 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chinese_Dynasty_Duration_01-1024x555.png\" alt=\"Bar chart of duration of Chinese dynasties versus time, with a slight downward trend.\" width=\"620\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chinese_Dynasty_Duration_01-1024x555.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chinese_Dynasty_Duration_01-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chinese_Dynasty_Duration_01-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chinese_Dynasty_Duration_01-660x357.png 660w, https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chinese_Dynasty_Duration_01-240x130.png 240w, https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Chinese_Dynasty_Duration_01.png 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duration of Chinese dynasties versus time<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication This piece is part of a forum on Organizing World History\u00a0in World History Connected organized by Rick\u00a0Szostak of the University of Alberta. &#8220;Navigating the Currents of History&#8221; (World History Connected, University of Illinois Press, February 2018) represents an attempt to create a generic, but unified conceptual language to describe a broad range of phenomena, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}