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The Future Of The Past
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Author : Alexander Stille
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2003-04
The Future Of The Past written by Alexander Stille and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04 with History categories.
At a time when technological innovation and globalization threaten to destroy humankind's greatest cultural legacies, those same changes also provide our best hope in preserving that inheritance. In a series of portraits, the author takes us from the Great Sphinx of Egypt to the banks of the Ganges, from the echoing halls of the Vatican to the information-glutted U.S. National Archives, and introduces us to the scholars, preservationists, and eccentrics working to preserve the world's historical riches.
The Future Of The Past
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Author : G. R. Elton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968-05-02
The Future Of The Past written by G. R. Elton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-05-02 with History categories.
Future Of The Past The Electronic Resource
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Author : C. Vann Woodward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Future Of The Past The Electronic Resource written by C. Vann Woodward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Futures Past
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Author : Reinhart Koselleck
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004
Futures Past written by Reinhart Koselleck and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Historiography categories.
History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in the crucial moment of modernity as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. This exploration of the concept of historical time considers the perceived relationships between the present (once the future) & the past (once the present).
Visions Of The Future
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Author : Robert Heilbroner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996-01-25
Visions Of The Future written by Robert Heilbroner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-25 with Social Science categories.
"This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic premise is stunning in its elegant simplicity. He contends that throughout all of human history, despite the huge gulf in social organization, technological development, and cultural achievement that divides us from the earliest known traces of homo sapiens, there have really only been three distinct ways of looking at the future. During a period Heilbroner refers to simply as the Distant Past, stretching from prehistory to the appearance of modern nation-states in seventeenth century Europe, there was no notion of a future measurably and materially different from the present or the past. From the Stone Age to the Bronze, Mesopotamia and Egypt to Greece and Rome, and throughout the Middle Ages, a continuum of cultures and civilizations shared one defining expectation--the absence of any expectation of material progress for the great masses of people. Heilbroner maintains that it was not until the first stirrings of the period he refers to as Yesterday, spanning from roughly 1700 to 1950, that the future entered into human consciousness as a great beckoning force. Capitalism, continually reinvigorated by the seemingly endless forward march of science and an evolving sense of democracy, appeared to promise all levels of society some expectation of a future at least somewhat better than the past. It was this unwavering faith in the superiority of the future that separated Yesterday from the age we have now entered, that of Today. While we are still driven towards tomorrow by the same forces that determined the recent past, the lessons of Hiroshima and Chernobyl, the chaos in the former Soviet Union, the stagnation of the West, and the anarchic rage unleashed in our inner cities and in hot spots around the globe have brought on a palpable anxiety that is quite apart from both the resignation of the Distant Past or the bright optimism of Yesterday. In a brilliant conclusion drawing together the threat of nuclear blackmail, global warming and the growing commodification of life represented by video games, voice mail, and VCRs, Visions of the Future issues a call to face the challenges of the twenty-first century with a new resolve strengthened by the inspiration of our collective past.
The Future Of The Past
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Author : Jane Fawcett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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Futures Past
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Author : Reinhart Koselleck
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-16
Futures Past written by Reinhart Koselleck and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-16 with History categories.
Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Relying on an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts from politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets to Renaissance paintings and the dreams of German citizens during the Third Reich, Koselleck shows that, with the advent of modernity, the past and the future became 'relocated' in relation to each other.The promises of modernity -freedom, progress, infinite human improvement -produced a world accelerating toward an unknown and unknowable future within which awaited the possibility of achieving utopian fulfillment. History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in this crucial moment as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. In the present context of globalization and its resulting crises, the modern world once again faces a crisis in aligning the experience of past and present. To realize that each present was once an imagined future may help us once again place ourselves within a temporality organized by human thought and humane ends as much as by the contingencies of uncontrolled events.
The Future Reveals The Past
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Author : Mansoor Hussain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-22
The Future Reveals The Past written by Mansoor Hussain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-22 with categories.
"Perhaps when you reach your optimum level of happiness, when all is well in the world; or at least in your world, you are simultaneously at your most complacent. A person lost in happiness is likely to be oblivious to any potentially impending gloom".Frank Moore has been made redundant from a job he did for years, but barely understood, he is surprised to receive a very generous payoff, enough for him to take a year off from working.Seeking some adventure in his life he reconnects with old friends and meets a collection of characters that provide a series of stories by turn, humorous, gripping, melancholic and at types profound.Frank has unlikely encounters with an American in exile with a dark past, landowners recreating a suspicious commune, alluring psychics, social media hate campaigns and finds his past lurking in his present.Musings on life, love, loss, friendship, when facing an uncertain future, chose carefully who to take with you on that journey.
The Future Of The Past
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Author : Alexander Stille
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Future Of The Past written by Alexander Stille and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Antiquities categories.
We now have better technology than ever before for studying and preserving the past but at the same time, this very technology threatens to destroy monuments, works of arts and ways of life that have survived thousands of years of hardship and war. This study describes the high-tech struggle to protect the Great Sphinx and the Ganges, efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican and the digital glut inside the US National Archives. critical projects. Throughout, his focus is not just on the past, but on our ideas about the past, how they are changing - and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.
Jerusalem
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Author : Moshe Safdie
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 1989
Jerusalem written by Moshe Safdie and has been published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Architecture categories.
The brilliant and controversial architect discusses his work in Jerusalem where he has rebuilt part of the Jewish quarter and designed, among other projects, two rabbinical colleges and a memorial to the children of the Holocaust. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR