Measuring Time, Making History Paperback / softback
by Lynn (Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles) Hunt
Part of the The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such.
These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of "modernity" as a new epoch in human history.
Are the Gregorian calendar, world standard time, and modernity itself simply impositions of Western superiority?
How did the idea of stages of history culminating in the modern period arise?
Is time really accelerating? Can we - should we - try to move to a new chronological framework, one that reaches back to the origins of humans and forward away or beyond modernity?
These questions go to the heart of what history means for us today.
Time is now on the agenda.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:146 pages
- Publisher:Central European University Press
- Publication Date:10/01/2008
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- ISBN:9789639776142
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:146 pages
- Publisher:Central European University Press
- Publication Date:10/01/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9789639776142
