Measuring Time, Making History

Informationen zum Autor Lynn Hunt is is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgement, Chapter 1: Is Time Historical?, Chapter 2: Modernity and History, Chapter 3: Post Times or the Future of the Past, Index

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• Authors: Lynn Hunt
• Publisher: Central european university pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2008
• EAN: 9789639776142
• ISBN: 978-963-9776-14-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lec; Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lec
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works