{"product_id":"stranded-in-the-present-peter-fritzsche-9780674045873","title":"Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the aftermath of the French Revolution, contemporaries saw themselves as occupants of an utterly new period. Increasingly disconnected from an irretrievable past, worried about an unknown and dangerous future, they described themselves as indisputably modern. To be cast in the new time of the nineteenth century was to recognize the weird shapes of historical change, to see landscapes scattered with ruins, and to mourn the remains of a bygone era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing the scars of history, writers and painters, revolutionaries and exiles, soldiers and widows, and ordinary home dwellers took a passionate, even flamboyant, interest in the past. They argued politics, wrote diaries, devoured memoirs, and collected antiques, all the time charting their private paths against the tremors of public life. These nostalgic histories take place on battlefields trampled by Napoleon, along bucolic English hedges, against the fairytale silhouettes of the Grimms' beloved Germany, and in the newly constructed parlors of America's western territories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis eloquent book takes a surprising, completely original look at the modern age: our possessions, our heritage, and our newly considered selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Fritzsche\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674045874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674045873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Peter Fritzsche","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925548564735,"sku":"9780674045873","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_16671395-fa9e-4f9a-9678-45ce2db3eea6.jpg?v=1681077926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stranded-in-the-present-peter-fritzsche-9780674045873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}