Measuring Time, Making History

• मुख्य लेखक: Lynn Hunt (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Central European University Press 2008
• विषय: Biography & True Stories; modern conceptions; modern period; time; human history
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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. Ar...