Measuring Time, Making History

• 主要作者: Lynn Hunt (auth)
• 格式: 電子 Book Chapter
• 語言: 英语
• 出版: Central European University Press 2008
• 主題: Biography & True Stories; modern conceptions; modern period; time; human history
• 在線閱讀: 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...