Measuring Time, Making History

Lynn Hunt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

146 Seiten

2008
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-9776-14-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Lynn Hunt is is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1: Is Time Historical? Chapter 2: Modernity and History Chapter 3: Post Times or the Future of the Past Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2008
Reihe/Serie	The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 200 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	963-9776-14-9 / 9639776149
ISBN-13	978-963-9776-14-2 / 9789639776142
Zustand	Neuware