Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226481623)

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts--"power" and "time"--as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world's most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.

Author: Dan Edelstein
ISBN-10: 022648162X
ISBN-13: 9780226481623
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2020
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d