TY - BOOK AU - Mortimer, Ian. TI - Centuries of change : : which century saw the most change and why it matters to us SN - 9781847923035 AV - HM 626 .M67 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - The Bodley Head KW - SOCIAL CHANGE KW - CIVILIZATION N1 - Includes index; 1. The eleventh Century.--2. The Twelfth Century.--3. The Thirteen Century.--4. The Fourteenth Century.--5. The Fifteenth Century.--6. The Sixteenth Century.--7. The Seventeenth Century.--8. The Eighteenth Century.--9. The Nineteenth Century.--10. The Twentieth Century N2 - Celebrated historian Ian Mortimer takes us on a whirlwind tour of Western history, pitting one century against another in his quest to measure change. We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burnt to the ground by invaders, and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer, to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilizations came into conflict with each other on an epic scale ER -