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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A collection of essays which offer 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 an 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. 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.

Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at UCLA.

Preface and Ackonwledgement; 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 Memorial Lectures Series
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 200 mm
Gewicht	197 g
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