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Engaging with the Past and Present: The Relationship between Past and Present across the Disciplines book cover

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Engaging with the Past and Present The Relationship between Past and Present across the Disciplines

Edited By Paul M. Dover Copyright 2023
248 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past, not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities and social sciences (including theology, art history, public history, and archival science) and natural sciences (including geology, paleontology, astronomy, and paleoanthropology). What is... Read more

    1. Engaging with the Past and the Present: an Introduction\

    Paul Dover

    Part 1: Past, Present and History

    2. Reflections on March Bloch's Maxim

    Felipe Brandi

    3. When Does the Present Become the Past?

    Jeremi Suri

    4. Does the Past Still Matter?

    Zoltán Boldizsár Simon

    5. The Big History of Past, Present and Future

    Craig Benjamin

    Part 2: Past, Present and Human Culture

    6. Historical Faith and Faithful History

    Nicolas Steeves, SJ

    7. Confucian Culture and the Imminence of the Past

    Yves Vendé

    8. Past, Present, and Heritage

    William Stoutamire

    9. The Continuum between the Past and Present: an Art Historian's View

    Gregory T. Clark

    10. Digging into the Human Past: Archeology, Time, and the Object

    Martin Porr

    11. Archives: Preserving the Documentary Past

    Randolph C. Head

    Part 3: Past, Present and Natural History

    12. Earth Time: Lessons from the "Boring Billions"

    Hilairy Hartnett

    13. The Past and Present in Environmental Science

    Ellen Wohl

    14. The Past and Present of the Cosmos

    David Garofalo

    15. Disengaging with the Past: Extinction and Resets of the Biosphere

    Roy Plotnick

    16. The Human Deep Past (Paleoanthropology)

    Deborah Olszewski

    Biography

    Paul M. Dover is Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. He has published widely in early modern political and cultural history and in the history of information. His most recent book is The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe (2021).

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