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Product Identifiers
PublisherCentral European University Press
ISBN-109639776149
ISBN-139789639776142
eBay Product ID (ePID)63887466
Product Key Features
Number of Pages146 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMeasuring Time, Making History
SubjectHistoriography, General, Time, World
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Science, History
AuthorLynn Hunt
SeriesThe Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series-Ceu Press Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.1 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2007-039301
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal901
Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1: Is Time Historical? Chapter 2: Modernity and History Chapter 3: Post Times or the Future of the Past Index
SynopsisTime 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., First volume of the Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at Central European University, this small but rich book contains three lectures delivered at CEU. Explores some of the ways in which time matters or should matter to historians. Like everyone else, historians assume that time exists, yet despite its obvious importance to historical writing--what is history but the account of how things change over time?--writers of history do not often inquire into the meaning of time itself. Hunt asks a series of related questions about time in history. Why is time now again on the agenda, for historians and more generally in Western culture? How did Western Christian culture develop its distinctive way of measuring time (BC/AD or BCE/CE) and how does it influence our notion of history? What is the role of modernity--our most contentious temporal category--in the historical discipline? Is modernity an experience of temporal ty or an ideological construction? Are modernity, the discipline of history, and even the notion of history itself a western, and therefore imperialist, imposition? Should we, can we, move beyond the modern within the historical discipline?
LC Classification NumberD16.9.H88 2007
