Measuring time, making history / Lynn Hunt.

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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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.
Physical Description:1 online resource (138 pages).
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  • "Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series at Central European University, Budapest"--Half t.p.
  • Lectures presented in Nov. 2006.
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