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Measuring Time, Making History

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By Lynn Hunt
2008
Published by: Central European University Press
Series: The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Ser
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summary
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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. c-ii

Title Page

pp. iii-iii

Copyright page

pp. iv-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

Preface and Acknowledgments

pp. 1-2

Chapter 1. Is Time Historical?

pp. 3-46

Chapter 2. Modernity and History

pp. 47-92

Chapter 3. Post Times or the Future of the Past

pp. 93-134

Index

pp. 135-140

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pp. bc-bc
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