1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000436590403321

Autore

Luzzader, Warren J.

Titolo

Basic graphics for Design, Analysis, Communications and the Computer / Warren J. Luzadder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey : Pentice Hall, 1968

Edizione

[2° ed.]

Descrizione fisica

642 p. : ill. ; 24 X 21 cm

Locazione

DINED

Collocazione

08 DD 87

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910893975803321

Titolo

Comunicações em Informática : CI

Pubbl/distr/stampa

João Pessoa, : Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Informática, [2017]-

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Portoghese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910917189503321

Autore

Hofhuis Steije

Titolo

The Evolutionary History of Witch-hunting : A Qualitative Darwinian Approach / / by Steije Hofhuis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031669361

9783031669354

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 pages)

Disciplina

133.43094

Soggetti

Europe - History - 1492-

Intellectual life - History

Science - History

Civilization - History

History of Early Modern Europe

Intellectual History

History of Science

Cultural History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Functions -- 4. The Theory -- 5. Witch-hunts -- 6. Explanations -- 7. Cases -- 8. Reflections -- 9. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches? Were these persecutions a shrewd tool to oppress women or the poor, or were they just a way of making money? Or were witch-hunters primarily driven by a genuine belief in witchcraft? The witches' sabbath, the diabolical pact, and the nightly flight were elements in the early modern concept of witchcraft that seem to have been intelligently designed to trigger persistent witch persecutions. But in contrast to what many past historical scholars presumed, witch-hunts were not based on intelligent design. So how to explain them? This book proposes a new model: Darwinian cultural evolution. It contends that witch-hunting's apparent design emerged from a hidden evolutionary process in which cultural



variants which accidentally unleashed larger persecutions were cumulatively preserved. Witch-hunting did not so much evolve to serve human interests but to ensure its own 'selfish' reproduction. Historians have often compared witch persecutions to the outbreaks of contagious disease, but only as a figure of speech. But shouldn't we take the similarities more seriously? This book argues that witch-hunting was a cultural 'virus' that spread at the expense of its human hosts, and thus bridges the gap between qualitative history and the burgeoning field of Darwinian cultural evolution. Steije Hofhuis is a historian and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center, Germany.