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    Measuring Time, Making History
    Measuring Time, Making History
    Measuring Time, Making History
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    Measuring Time, Making History

    By Lynn Hunt

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCentral European University Press
    Release dateJan 10, 2008
    ISBN9786155211485
    Measuring Time, Making History
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    Lynn Hunt

    Lynn Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution (California, 1992) and the editor (with Victoria E. Bonnell) of Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (California, 1999). She was President of the American Historical Association in 2002-2003.

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