Measuring Time, Making 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 Greg...
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| description | 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 ac... |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-529252024-03-25T18:28:22Z Measuring Time, Making History Lynn Hunt D1-2009 modern conceptions modern period time human history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose 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 ac... 2021-02-11T18:59:08Z 2021-02-11T18:59:08Z 2015-05-19 15:18:48 2008 book 17091 9789639776142 9786155211485 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52925 eng image/jpeg http://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9786155211485 http://www.7switch.com/en/ebook/9786155211485 http://books.openedition.org/ceup/810 Central European University Press 49dd7c40-8e8d-4f66-b9e6-2895b535a0e0 9789639776142 9786155211485 open access |
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