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ISBN: 0674045874

ISBN13: 9780674045873

Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History

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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 to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow.

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, contemporaries saw themselves as occupants of an utterly new period. Increasingly disconnected from an irretrievable past,...

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Europe Historical Study & Educational Resources Historiography History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Western World

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