Measuring Time, Making History

by Lynn Hunt

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789639776142
Publisher:	Central European University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2008
Series:	Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	147
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.87(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgement

Chapter 1: Is Time Historical?

Chapter 2: Modernity and History

Chapter 3: Post Times or the Future of the Past

Index