Time and the shape of history / Penelope J. Corfield.

Time and the shape of history /

This ambitious book explores the relationship between time and history and shows how an appreciation of long-term time helps to make sense of the past. For the historian, time is not an unproblematic given but, as for the physicist or the philosopher, a means to understanding the changing patterns o...

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Main Author: Corfield, Penelope J., 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Time.
History > Philosophy.
Time
time.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1: History in time : Chapterlink 1-2: shaping history
  • time travel
  • 2: Deep continuities : Chapterlink 2-3: shaping history
  • time cycles
  • 3: Micro-change : Chapterlink 3-4: Shaping history
  • time lines
  • 4: Radical discontinuity : Chapterlink 4-5: Shaping history
  • time ends
  • 5: Mutable modernity : Chapterlink 5-6: Shaping history
  • time names
  • 6: Variable stages : Chapterlink 6-7: Shaping history
  • time pieces
  • 7: Multiple dimensions : Chapterlink 7-8: Shaping history
  • time power
  • 8: History past and future : Coda: Time frames and history.

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