Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History
Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley
Abstract
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 bring together essays that 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 “temporal regimes” ... More
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 bring together essays that 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 “temporal regimes” are constituted through the shaping of power in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on a wide variety of subjects: human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; 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 innovative contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Keywords:
time,
temporality,
history,
imperial history,
history of ideas,
power,
crisis,
revolution,
temporal conflicts
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226481623 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2021 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226706016.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dan Edelstein, editor
Stanford University
Stefanos Geroulanos, editor
New York University
Natasha Wheatley, editor
Princeton University
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