Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of HistoryHarvard University Press, 28. maj 2004 - 268 sider 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 to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow. |
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... America's western territories . This eloquent book takes a surprising , completely original look at the modern age : our possessions , our heritage , and our newly considered selves . Stranded in the Present This One R9SC - LFZ -
... present : modern time and the melancholy of history / Peter Fritzsche . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-674-01339-5 ( alk . paper ) 1. Historiography - Europe - History - 19th century . 2. History ...
... present . The present does not recognize itself as occupying the same temporal plain with Athens , Sparta , or Rome . Men and women today do not see their past counter- parts as basically the same , whether living in Periclean Athens or ...
... present made the past an object of intense scrutiny . Insofar as the present moment was characterized by the new , the past appeared increas- ingly different , mysterious , and inaccessible . Cut off from the present , the past turned ...
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