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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.
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Lynn Hunt (history, UCLA) is a noted historian of the French Revolution. She has also written widely on historicity, which is the subject of these three lectures delivered at Central European University. Hunt draws on a number of other disciplines in her discussion of time, how we perceive it, how we codify it and what that means to how we arrange history. She discusses how the Western, Christian calendar has become the world standard and what that implies. Hunt argues for a revision of our tendency to periodize history. This slim book is densely packed with thought-provoking suggestions and surprising slants on time, modernity and history. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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