Measuring Time, Making History

dc.contributor.author	Lynn Hunt	*
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-11T18:59:08Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-11T18:59:08Z
dc.date.issued	2008	*
dc.date.submitted	2015-05-19 15:18:48	*
dc.identifier	17091	*
dc.identifier.uri	https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52925
dc.description.abstract	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. Are the Gregorian calendar, world standard time, and modernity itself simply impositions of Western superiority? How did the idea of stages of history culminating in the modern period arise? Is time really ac...	*
dc.language	English	*
dc.subject	D1-2009	*
dc.subject.classification	thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose	en_US
dc.subject.other	modern conceptions	*
dc.subject.other	modern period	*
dc.subject.other	time	*
dc.subject.other	human history	*
dc.title	Measuring Time, Making History	*
dc.type	book
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy	49dd7c40-8e8d-4f66-b9e6-2895b535a0e0	*
oapen.relation.isbn	9789639776142	*
oapen.relation.isbn	9786155211485	*

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