Catalog > Human Sciences > History > Lynn Hunt: Measuring Time, Making History (PDF)

Lynn Hunt
Measuring Time, Making History [PDF ebook]

Support

Cover of Lynn Hunt: Measuring Time, Making History (PDF)

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.

€15.32

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!

Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9786155211485 ● Publisher Central European University Press ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8088822 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

Lynn Hunt University of California, Los Angeles) Hunt Lynn (Professor of Modern European History

223,692 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Tariq Modood & Anna Triandafyllidou: Problem of Religious Diversity

Tariq Modood & Anna Triandafyllidou: Problem of Religious Diversity

This book engages critically with the different models and approaches for managing religion adopted in Europe, Asia and Oceania. A truly intercontinental volume, this collection brings together high …

Cover of Scriptural Research Institute: ᐃᓅᓯᖓ ᕹᕐᑰᕝ

Scriptural Research Institute: ᐃᓅᓯᖓ ᕹᕐᑰᕝ

ᕹᕐᑰᕝ ᐃᓅᓯᖓ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᑕᐅᓯᒪᑦᑎᐊᕐᓂᖅᐹᖑᖃᑕᐅᕗᖅ ᑕᐃᔅᓱᒪᓂ ᑭᒡᒐᖅᑐᖅᑎᑐᖃᐅᓚᐅᖅᑐᒥ ᐄᔨᑉᐱᐊᒥᐅᑦ ᑭᖑᓂᑦᑎᓐᓂ. ᕹᕐᑰᕝ ᐃᓅᓚᐅᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᕐᔪᐊᑦ ᒥᕐᓐ-ᕌ 1 ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐯᐱ 2 ᑕᐃᓇᔅᑎ 6-ᒥ, ᐊᑕᐅᑦᑎᒃᑯᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᓂᖅᓴᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐆᓂ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕆᓯᒪᔭᒃᓴᕆᓚᐅᖅᑕᖓ ᐃᒻ …

Cover of Stephen H. Jones: Islam and the Liberal State

Stephen H. Jones: Islam and the Liberal State

National identity and liberal democracy are recurrent themes in debates about Muslim minorities in the West. Britain is no exception, with politicians responding to claims about Muslims” lack of int …

Cover of Philip H Gordon: The Transatlantic Allies and the Changing Middle East

Philip H Gordon: The Transatlantic Allies and the Changing Middle East

Since the mid-1990s, US and European attitudes, strategies and policies towards the Middle East have diverged. In the Middle East peace process, Europeans have grown frustrated with the lack of progr …

Cover of Dr Peter (University of Southampton, UK) Johnson: R.G Collingwood and the Second World War

Dr Peter (University of Southampton, UK) Johnson: R.G Collingwood and the Second World War

R.G Collingwood”s prolific works have shaped the debate about the nature of civilisation and its status as an ideal governing art, morality and social and political existence. As one of the few phil …

Cover of Roy Flechner: Making Laws for a Christian Society

Roy Flechner: Making Laws for a Christian Society

This is the first comprehensive study of the contribution that texts from Britain and Ireland made to the development of canon law in early medieval Europe. The book concentrates on a group of insula …

Cover of Christopher Fletcher: Everyday Political Objects

Christopher Fletcher: Everyday Political Objects

Everyday Political Objects examines a series of historical case studies across a very broad timescale, using objects as a means to develop different approaches to understanding politics where both in …

Cover of Saara Matala: A History of Cold War Industrialisation

Saara Matala: A History of Cold War Industrialisation

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development. It provides a detailed archival-based histor …

Cover of Janell (University at Albany, New York, USA) Hobson: When God Lost Her Tongue

Janell (University at Albany, New York, USA) Hobson: When God Lost Her Tongue

When God Lost Her Tongue explores historical consciousness as captured through the Black feminist imagination that re-centers the perspectives of Black women in the African Diaspora, and revisits how …

Cover of Dr Susan (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Grant & Dr James (Cardiff University, UK) Ryan: Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism

Dr Susan (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Grant & Dr James (Cardiff University, UK) Ryan: Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism

This thought-provoking collection of essays analyses the complex, multi-faceted, and even contradictory nature of Stalinism and its representations. Stalinism was an extraordinarily repressive and vi …