146 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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.
Preface and Acknowledgement, Chapter 1: Is Time Historical?, Chapter 2: Modernity and History, Chapter 3: Post Times or the Future of the Past, Index
Biography
Lynn Hunt is is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
