Measuring Time, Making History

• Auteur principal: Lynn Hunt (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Central European University Press 2008
• Sujets: Biography & True Stories; modern conceptions; modern period; time; human history
• Accès en ligne: 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...