Time and the Shape of History

Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 030011558X
Paperback: 334 pages
Data: Jun 2007
Format: PDF
Description: 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. The book is devoted to a wide-ranging analysis of the way different societies have conceived and interpreted time, and it develops a theory of the threefold roles of continuity, gradual change, and revolution which together form a “braided” history. Linking the interpretative chapters are intriguing brief expositions on time travel, time cycles, time lines, and time pieces, showing the different ways in which human history has been located in time.

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