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Stranded in the Present
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Peter Fritzsche
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-10 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought
The Footnote
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Anthony Grafton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge
Reading Berlin 1900
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Peter FRITZSCHE
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In this study of the newspaper page, Fritzsche analyzes how reading & writing dramatized Imperial Berlin & anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated
In the Meantime
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Adeline Masquelier
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-10 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension
The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Stephen Kern
Categories: Civilisation - 19e siècle
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-01-01 - Publisher:

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THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION From about 1880 to World War I, sweeping changes in technology and culture created new modes of understanding