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Measuring Time, Making History

Paperback • 2007 • Norwegian Bokmål

Measuring Time, Making History

By Lynn Hunt

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About the book

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 accele...Show more

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ISBN

9789639776142

Publisher

New York, NY, USA : Central European University Press

Published year

2007

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Measuring Time, Making History

Format

Paperback

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