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Remembrance of Things Present - Nick Yablon

Remembrance of Things Present

The Invention of the Time Capsule

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
384 Seiten
2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-57413-4 (ISBN)
CHF 67,95 inkl. MwSt
Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts.

By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.

Nick Yablon is associate professor of history and American studies at the University of Iowa.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 17 x 24 mm
Gewicht 709 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Technikgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-226-57413-X / 022657413X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-57413-4 / 9780226574134
Zustand Neuware
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