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1 online resource (xvi, 316 pages) |
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text file |
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OldControl:muse9781421403373. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Gestation""; ""Introduction: The Past Defined""; ""PART ONE: Antiquity""; ""Flatland""; ""Pasts Present""; ""The Herodotean Achievement""; ""Thucydides and the Refashionings of Linear Time""; ""Hellenistic Innovations""; ""PART TWO: Christianity""; ""Can�t Get Here from There""; ""The Power of Prayer""; ""Breakthrough to the Now""; ""The Idea of the S�culum""; ""The S�culum Reconfigured""; ""Gregory of Tours and the S�culum""; ""Back from the Future: Bede and the Figural View of Reality""; ""PART THREE: Renaissance""; ""The Living Past"" |
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""The Birth of Anachronism""""Petrarch�s “Copernican Leap�""; ""The Commonplace View of the World""; ""Jean Bodin and the Unity of History""; ""PART FOUR: Enlightenment""; ""Presence and Distance""; ""Biography as a Form of History""; ""The Politics of History""; ""The Relations of Truth / The Truth of Relations""; ""Montesquieu and the Relations of Things""; ""The Past Emerges""; ""Epilogue: The Past Historicized""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q"" |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Civilization, Western.
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Civilization, Western. |
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Historiography -- Western countries.
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Historiography. |
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Western countries. |
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Historiography -- Philosophy.
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Historiography -- Philosophy. |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
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Western countries -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Electronic books.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schiffman, Zachary Sayre. Birth of the Past. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2014 9781421402789 |
| ISBN |
9781421403373 (electronic book) |
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1421403374 (electronic book) |
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9781421402789 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1421402785 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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