Power and Time - Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History

"In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together a stunning collection of essays that challenge our understanding of what it means to interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts, "power" and "time," as they manifest themselves in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, and including ambitious essays on human rights, sovereignty, Islamic, European, and Indian history, slavery, capitalism, revolution, the Supreme Court, and even the Manson Family, this engaging book shows how "temporal regimes" are constituted through the shaping of power in historically specific ways. Power and Time is poised to be a game-changing, agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the most respected, innovative historians currently writing"--

About the author

Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French and (by courtesy) professor of history at Stanford University. He is the author of The Terror of Natural Right, The Enlightenment, and On the Spirit of Rights, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Stefanos Geroulanos is professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Transparency in Postwar France and coauthor of The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, published by the University of Chicago Press. Natasha Wheatley is assistant professor of history at Princeton University.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Geroulanos Edelstein
• Assisted by: Dan Edelstein (Editor), Edelstein Dan (Editor), Stefanos Geroulanos (Editor), Geroulanos Stefanos (Editor), Natasha Wheatley (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780226481623
• ISBN: 978-0-226-48162-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Historiography, c 1500 onwards to present day, Historiography